Opernball | with Jonathan

"This painting was made after the Opernball, an evening built on surface and performance. Wealth staged as culture. Precision without warmth. A structure that appeared refined while feeling internally empty.
Later that night, I painted with a friend, Jonathan. Years earlier, he had taken hallucinogens and was violently attacked during the experience. What followed was not understanding but containment: police, hospitalization, diagnosis. What stayed with him was not schizophrenia, but fear, given form, moving from perception into the body.
We painted as a dialogue. One gesture answered another. The canvas became a space where experience could be approached directly, without being reduced to explanation or pathology.
My way of working is informed by myths understood as ancient knowledge, early frameworks for understanding inner experience and the relationship between inner and outer worlds. This perspective shaped how the process was held and how the painting emerged.
The title Opernball is intentional. The skull points to systems obsessed with appearance, polished on the surface, hollow underneath.
This work is not about trauma as spectacle. It is about fear becoming visible, and therefore limited."

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