de scheiding Painting

This is part of my memory series "herinneringen" from my childhood in Holland. Inspired by Proust, I'm attempting to capture moments and feelings that defined a period of time. It existed. Here it is. Distilled. Visually. The capturing is not realistic. Memory is memory. Besides the visual, the color, the texture, I think the feeling is even more important. This particular painting is on cardboard, that has a lot of texture. The gesso warped it slightly and at times when using a pencil, I pushed through layers. I feel this gives an emotional relevance to the subject of this piece, separation. It is an exploration of a personal mythology. Literally mythology was part of my upbringing, from all the different countries and cultures I lived in. At times there was a surreal and fairy tale element to all of it.