Carpets

Year:  2016
Size:  21,5 . 26 cm; thickness +/- 2,5 cm.
Material:  Oil paint on strips of canvas
Extra info:  Not Available

These 'Carpets', no painting of carpets but oil paint on strips of canvas to create a carpet, are meant to question some well known aspects on everyday life, the divine and the cliches surrounding them. Think for instance of the western view on the depiction of Paradise, and thereby the probably unachievable task of 'the artist' searching for 'perfectness', which is mostly translated in thought and material.
This first cliche is translated in the carpet 'Never promised you a rose garden' as the work calls upon our associative brain. Primarily, by suggesting the color pink which is used in earlier series to symbolize heaven, as well as by the grass like structure. Secondary, by the content of 'the carpet' and the title which again leads us to the visualization of Paradise.
The same concept is pushed through in the work 'The grass is always greener on the other side' which unlike in 'Never promised you a rose garden' shows no clear difference in comparing both sides in color to one another. This same concept is also visualized in 'Depiction of Sunlight', keeping in mind that we typically draw the sun as a yellow circle with beams in the same color. All works are thus meant to question and to spread out doubts concerning well known everyday life cliches and thereby also to rake up cliches regarding the divine.
These cliches manifested in a carpet are highlighting everyday questions out of an incontestable divine structure. Simply by walking on a carpet, it reveals to us it's down to earth perspective and thereby it's questioning view. The carpet is the key connection through the questioning of the everyday life, the divine and the overall cliches, for it is so close to us, so close to our feet, but possibly so far away from our head and spirit.