Description

This painting was originally made as a self-portrait of me in the bathtub, after the plug had been pulled and the water had already drained away. I exhibited it in 2007 at the Museum Kamen as part of the exhibition Animalia. In 2020, I took the painting up again and covered what had been so obvious in the first version, partially painting over it and creating another layer. In a way, this was also a protective gesture towards a certain fragile openness in the painting, which had turned out to be less provocative than I had originally imagined. Looking at the painting now in its final form, I feel that the whole range of the original intention has become almost more direct through the overpainting.