Pool with nothing. Painting

I have started a series of pools in 2021 "Pool with...", directly inspired by David Hockney's pools. David Hockney's pools from the 60s and 70s embody hedonism, a happy lifestyle, homosexuality and perhaps hope. Personally, some of them seem to me to be marked by a certain sadness. This work, "Pool with nothing" is part of this series. This pool is the most refined, "with nothing", no human and for any landscape, a simple hedge. My pools are part of my work on the landscape, they are a research on the composition based on horizontal lines, in search of a certain fullness, of hope. They are symbols of our human behavior, they are reflections of pools, imaginary, placed in unlikely places. Today their meaning seems to me different from David Hockney's pools, due to our time, to the IPCC reports. Even if they still embody a certain hedonism, they convey an image of selfishness, in a way they symbolize the access to water, and especially the lack of access to water. We are making a world where many will have unwanted pools and others will have dried up wells. As in the past, family meals drag on, only the adults have the right to speak, and as in the past, they leave the table at 6 p.m. and, full as they are, they do not want to make decisions that could compromise the next family meal.