This work is part of an ongoing cycle exploring ambivalent states of contemporary existence.
Title: Crossroads
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Year: 2025
Format: Portrait format (24 × 36 inches)
Colour Space: Golden-yellow ground with high-contrast areas of blue, black, red and green
Stylistic Classification: Geometric-symbolist figuration with constructive and surreal elements
„Crossroads“ depicts a divided human figure caught between order and disintegration. The left side represents control and creation, while the right side signals fragmentation and loss of orientation.
The Master of its Creation
In an affirmative reading, the human figure appears as a sovereign shaper of the artificial world. Clear forms and rhythmic order point to technology, architecture, and abstract thought as tools for structuring and mastering reality. The human being actively engages with its environment — rightly understanding itself as a creative agent.
The Inherent Dynamic of Creation
From a critical perspective, every system created by humanity develops its own logic that gradually escapes the original will to shape. Order dissolves, identity becomes fragile, and systems and information overwhelm the individual. Not because humanity fails, but because complexity is an inherent property of creation — both forces, the will to shape and the dynamic of what is shaped, are real and inevitably intertwined.
Conclusion
Crossroads holds open the tension between the claim to create and the uncontrollability of what is created — as a lasting condition of human making. The work follows the integrity of ambivalence.