Sunset in Vestergade

I showed "Sunset" in the demo-room of Gallery Image. In September 2005 you could see the sunset in Vestergade. A beautiful and magnificent experience of nature shined from a window in the basement to people passing in the street.

I painted the sunset on an acrylic sheet in the window lighted from the inside. During the summer vacation I took a photo of the sunset every night, and one of these is "Sunset" painted from.

A sunset often looks like a big abstract painting in the sky, and like a painting, every sunset is unique. That's one part of the inspiration for the piece. I have often painted motifs from the everyday-life, looking both abstract and figurative at the same time.

The sunset seems to be another kind of motif. A beautiful and transient romantic cliché. But by placing the sunset in the basement window in Vestergade, it is put into the streets' ordinary everyday-life. Maybe it represents the everyday longing for something else.