Watershed

Date: 2005
Material: acrylic on canvas and galvanized metal
Size: 330×180 cm

Story

The word watershed often uses when something dramatic happens. So it did the 11th of september 2001 in New York. But also in our personal lives comes situations, which make our lifes not the same as before.

In China the Yin and Yang thinking says that a bad thing can be balanced by a good one. And in many ways I agree with this thinking. But if you always think like this it can be a problem.  Sometimes we have to make a distinction between  good and evil.

Don’t just accept the evil things. Fight the evil with the good!!!

From the front this painting looks very abstract, but when you move in the room, walking  all the way to the wall it suddenly change and you will see chinese caracters. From the left side you will see the words for: Hate, Evil, Lies, Terror and Opression.

But from the right side you find something more positive: Love, Freedom, Truth, Friendship and Righteousness. The red color in both sides maybe look the same but it can represent both War and Blood, but also Heart and Happiness.