Behind the Curtain of Mist. The Soul of Bird. Painting

Sometimes we come into this world to wander in it. Some who have a home are looking for places where they think it will be better. Others, who for some reason have lost their home, remain restless for a long time, seeing it in dreams and visions. The nest in the painting is a metaphor for the home that we sometimes look for all our lives. Covered with a curtain, it seems distant and sometimes inaccessible to us. The curtain, which is also a metaphor for fog, here personifies the thin line between illusion and reality, where there is still hope to find one’s nest. The fog will clear and what seemed invisible and distant can become the best place on earth where a person can finally feel security and cosiness. The painting has a double title because it has two meanings. My little son, when he first saw it, said without hesitation: “This is the soul of a flying bird.” And I thought it was very symbolic. All people are like birds. When they fly away from their nests, they leave a part of their soul in them.