1) Platform at night, 50x149cm, gouache and ink/paper 2) Spectral citizens, 50x150cm, ink/paper 3) Long night, 26x150cm, oil/paper 4) Outskirts by day, 25x150cm, oil/paper 5) Along the road, 30x200cm, oil/paper 6) Subway platform with safety line, 12x39cm, gouache and ink/paper 7) Ghostly matters, 28x75cm, ink/paper 8) Yellow U-Bahn with sleeper, 14x47cm, gouache/paper 9) Group on S-Bahn platform, 15x46cm, ink/paper 10) Hamburg harbor, 9x40cm, gouache on paper 11) Waiting area, 39x64cm, gouache and ink/paper 12) Crossing on the ferry, 31x46, ink and gouache/paper 13) Subway platform with figures, 10x35cm, oil/wood 14) Subway platform with faces, 10x35, oil/wood
Hannah Arendt called plurality the defining condition of all political life: “Plurality is the condition of human action because we are all the same, that is, human, in such a way that nobody is ever the same as anyone else who ever lived, lives, or will live.” For more than a decade I have lived in Berlin, drawing my fellow citizens as we occupy the space of street and subway, alongside buildings, tracks and tunnels. These paintings reflect an attempt to grasp the sheer fact of our plurality, to contemplate it through the medium. What does it mean to be one among many?
