PARADOX

Abstract painting in blue and white tones with gestural brush movements and transparent layers on canvas.

“Paradox” engages with the tension from which energy emerges. Opposing forces — stillness and movement, clarity and unrest, expansion and compression — are not in contradiction, but in relationship to one another.

The work understands these oppositions as a source of strength. Dynamics arise through contrast; the new does not develop through dissolution, but through the conscious coexistence of different states. “Paradox” invites the viewer to experience energy as a process — open, mutable and alive.

Paradox, 2025
Acrylic, oil pastel and spray paint on canvas
160 × 120 × 4 cm
© Susanne Herbold