Drifting mind I (from the series Synthesis 22) Painting

Drifting mind I (Synthesis 22) Richter 2015 Oil on canvas 80 x 70 cm The three paintings "Drifting mind" of the series "Synthesis 22" are about the inner swaying of a person, about the field of doubt and restlessness. These paintings show images of faces that are distorted in some way by the superimposition of layers, by the time- and phase shiftings result of that. There are only faces as from conventionally photographed Polaroids, but their expression tilts through them forced artistic texture into the unknown, even threatening. And the viewer himself is drawn into the horizon of the skeptical (an automatism, which one can hardly escape) - similar to the picture puzzles already known in the Renaissance. The pair of eyes of the inclined observer is almost forced to rush restlessly about the respective painting in the vain hope to find somewhere in the faces a more quiet, more accustomed and peaceful constellation.