Snow White’s Sister Rose Red
2021 – “Soulsisters” series (to the series)
100 x 220 x 3 cm
Acrylic and oil stick on old linen
This painting was the beginning.
Not just of the series – but also of my return to myself.
After my largest solo exhibition to date, in which I had intensively explored the plant world and my grandfather, I suddenly felt an emptiness. Everything had been right, but something was missing: my connection to myself.
So I started anew. I stretched old linen sheets from my grandmother onto stretcher frames – fabrics from her dowry, imbued with everyday life, history, and origin. On this foundation, I worked with flowing shades of blue – following my need for movement. For freedom.
What emerged was a painting about origin and independence. About the bond between sisters. About my sister and me – as different as blossom and root, yet from the same earth. About our mother. About what remains when paths diverge and memories connect.
As children, we loved to invent stories. Fairy tales were read to us, and the song “Sleeping Beauty was a beautiful child” accompanied us like a refrain. I wanted to be a princess. My sister didn’t. She didn’t want to fit into my world – and created her own. I would have liked to belong. But I couldn’t. Perhaps that was our first separation. And yet: We were always together.
Of fairy tales and rose bushes
The painting is inspired by wild rose bushes. Untamed, powerful. Rosewood, delicate leaves, petals so delicate and thorns so hurtful and vulnerable at the same time. Like us. Later, her first daughter was born – as gentle as the pink wild rose blossoms that characterize the painting.
It shows tensions: delicate lines like petals, interwoven with strong red tones that intertwine. In the lower area lies a deep blue-black – heavy, like the weight of generations. And yet, above it all is something light, magical. Like a memory that remains, even though it changes.
This painting belongs to the little sisters.
The non-conformists, the free, the wild.
Those who do not bend, but proliferate.
Who grow where no gardener wants them –
and who enchant everything precisely there.
It is a painting for my sister
and for her daughters.
For what remains when all words fall silent
and only colors speak.
The wild rose is not an ornament.
It is origin.
It is a memory of what was –
and at the same time a promise of what is to come.
In 2025, a circle closed:
This painting hung in a retrospective – alongside works by very famous artists who have long passed away.
And amidst all these voices, it whispered something to me:
You have found your place.
Not on the path you thought.
But on your own.
Snow White’s Rose Red
100 x 220 cm
Acrylic on canvas
2022
3,200.00 Euros (plus 7% VAT)
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