“I can paint you a house, but I cannot paint you a home”

2024

Explanation does not kill art. It makes it possible to place the feeling you get into context.
You can choose to keep the feeling floating, and don’t read the explanation,
or read it and dive deeper in the head of the artist,
therefore sharing the experience as well as the emotion behind the artwork.
This aligns with the concept of home. I can paint you a house, but I cannot paint you a home.
I can try to paint you the feeling of home, but without explanation you will
not be able to place those feelings into
our (artist-audience) shared context. To exercise both of these concepts,
I want to paint my first home away from my parents.
I can paint the house, and via use of color I will try to show you how I felt there.
But only if you experienced the things I experienced there,
you can look at the house in the picture and call it home.

acrylics on canvas 60x80cm