Expired Map of Paradise Painting

Base: copper sheet Frame: dark metal box frame "Expired Map of Paradise" displays a map of an industrial area of southern Budapest. The personal story it originates from started with my parents' efforts to reestablish their lives in the capital of Hungary, coming from a tiny isolated village in the 1960s. During the Cold War behind the Iron Curtain industrial areas like this were very popular, as factories provided opportunities to work and war-shelters were built on every corner. These areas being popular, they were also expensive. Hence my parents couldn't afford such a luxury. They needed to move to a different area, a green hillside close to the city. Decades later the latter became the most valuable area of the city, while the industrial estates turned into no-ones-land. The painting became my meditation on what we judge as good or bad fortune and the pointlessness of such judgments. It is also a celebration of the recovery from the trauma of war and poverty through generations, a tribute of the souls' transformation that enables forgiveness through remembrance.

Painting:copper on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:39.4 W x 39.4 H x 2 D in

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