Abandoned

2015

Oil on canvas

100 x 170 cm

The idea for the painting arose as a reflection on current world events – refugees. Refugees from war, from violence, from economic crisis. We are witnesses to a great migration of people. This massive mechanism grinds people, families, and the destinies of entire nations like a mill, casting aside the weakest and most helpless. The crowd continues to run, fight, struggle for rights, for life, for a piece of bread, while the weakest are sacrificed.

While working on the painting, I realized that this piece also reflects my own inner feelings and experiences – at times, I felt like an abandoned dog, and the noise of the surrounding environment made the sense of loneliness even sharper and clearer.