Pandemic Painting 2020
 ‘Reumannplatz‘, Acrylic on canvas, 1m x 80cm, 2020. My research based practice explores global issues including migration caused by the ‘sharply’ evolving anthropogenic interference, on planet Earth. So the concept of home and the feeling of homeliness, specifically in relation to migration and newfound ‘home experiences’ is becoming a focus. As a result the numbers of displaced people whom cannot go back home, continuously increases due to the growing disasters. Presently through painting I investigate my feelings of home as a migrant permanently living in Vienna. I document through photography, streets that give a sense of home in minute detail, hopefully exposing visual clues that may affect my perceptions. I then recreate these images through painting, uncovering hidden visions that could contribute to these feelings. From here because of the Pandemic and the general haze that seems to have come over the general public and the linked disinformation, I deconstructing these paintings, intuitively obliterating the realistic image with a gestural haze in the hope of identifying some mysterious unknown points of interest.     |