Other World on the North Sea - SOLD
Oil on canvas
25.5 x 25.5”
695.

About Other World on the North Seas

For me, the transcendent quality in this painting is that the whole island of Sylt is as remote and alien as can be for me. It is far up into the North Sea off the west coast of Germany and Denmark: it’s beautiful both in summer and winter. The island, in its current form, is only about 400 years old, but people have lived there back into history, all the while enduring the endless effects of the sea and storms. The sea created this long, narrow strip of land, and no doubt, the sea will one day reclaim it.    

For me, this precarious scenario begins to wander into the land of something fantastical that I can barely imagine. I have been to Germany many times in the winter and yet even for me, it is difficult. At that time of year, the sun is a stranger and darkness prevails.

The fact that Sylt is inhabited and that people thrive there transcends reason and probability. It goes into the realm of the majesty and the resilience of humanity. We can and do survive in the most difficult, unpredictable, and unsettling circumstances.