Seagull Jonathan

2021

Acrylic on canvas

Triptychon 70 x 170 cm

The seagull Jonathan ..... Anyone who knows the story of this seagull knows how it thirsts for pure life and does things that no seagull has ever done before. But you don't have to have read this book worth reading to know how much we humans suffer from the consequences of this strange virus COVID-19. 
How we longingly wish the end of the pandemic! I would like to be free again, virtually outlawed! I want to be able to move freely again, want to be able to go wherever I like. And I want to be able to decide for myself again when to be home and not at 8 p.m.! This was last prescribed to me by my parents when I was at primary school - now the state does it. Even if for the good of all of us!
I want to be able to "breathe deeply" again! And I want to be able to meet conspecifics again! Like that seagull. She flies straight back to her own kind and has a chat there. I want that again - completely at ease and without this mask in front of the face ...... Hach .......

The idea for this triptych is not only due to this pandemic. I was inspired by a painting by the Munich artist Ludwig Arnold. In 1982 he painted a picture 
entitled "Airplane with Wings", which simply fascinated me. It was not so much the technique as the presentation. He distributed his airplane on 4 
canvases and, like in my picture, distributed the wing tips on 2 small landscape formats on the left and right.

I will publish a little cartoon here soon, on which you can see what Jonathan is up to ...