The above image presents greater detail of one of his exhibited paintings. What caught my attention when I first saw the painting from a distance was the paint, it seemed to appear bold with a clean edge, and then from close inspection it had a surprisingly rough and fluid texture. The streaming paint running into each other reminded me of someone crying, seeing their make up running down their face but you can’t see that from a distance. The two paintings had a sense of grief about them, which ties into the title of the exhibition, ‘Bilderstreit, A German Requiem’ which is German for controversy over image, and the word ‘requiem’ meaning, remembrance of the dead, perhaps it’s a representation of sorrow. Overall the paintings both present an
