The Tide Had Turned

A post-apocalyptic dystopia – not a subject that necessarily lends itself to jolly colours. Still, I feel its appearance and the text is true to the zeitgeist of the day.

Caspar David Friedrich’s painting Monk by the Sea which dark ’abstraction’ has always had a pull on me and I feel this work talks to that. This work appears to be executed in a hurried manner – in order perhaps, to catch the mood, the ‘light’ as it were in the artist’s imagination of painting in the post-apocalyptic, or the meditative state of the artist when it was made. “Concentration not imitation, essence and not frivolous brushwork,” said Friedrich. And, perhaps for reasons of comfort in these times of existential dread, it concerns itself with matters zen.

The text is thinking with these ideas in poetic form emphasising the reflexibility of the work.
It is reproduced as the second image.