Meike Lohmann
ART Habens
writer‘s house ca. 100 x 130 cm mixed media on paper
cal but also a very existential concept. The existence of time is nothing I can avoid and is a physical experience. Buildings and landscapes are the perfect witnesses of time and events, which preserve properties of experiences.
I painted this piece during my residency in the USA. It was one of the buildings there. Ultimately it is the space – or should I say topos – that is itself subject to changes from the passage of time. In my painting of a workshop with the small lines of a hinted square, you might see the construction of someone’s dreams for the future as well an already passed location.
Within this context is the small painting with yellow firmament. It is symbolic of man's impotence when confronted with the forces of nature. The house on the right side is a small and undistinguished building. Another lone building is set beneath a massive and cloudy sky. But they are transparent like fading fragments of memories.
By the way, I'm sort of convinced that some informations & ideas are hidden, or even "encrypted" in the environment we live in, so we need -in a way- to decipher them. Maybe that one of the roles of an artist could be to 22 74 4