A SENSE OF FAMILY

The external situation in the picture seems at first glance to be that of a family idyll, maybe a Sunday excursion – yet with something strangely personal: the parents, like figures from a Greek chorus warning of some unexpected event or some imminent catastrophe. The daughter is mischievous and in a great mood while the button-eyed dog is already posing for the photo while a friend of the family, the alarm signals before her eyes, is documenting the whole thing.

More essential however is the view behind the external events. My picture deals exclusively with those values in our lives that can neither be insured nor measured in money: with love and cohesion, with the solidarity of the generations – or expressed concisely: with A SENSE OF FAMILY.

These phenomena, located on an ideal level, are the true pillars maintaining society. They are the basis of the meaning of life. Sooner than one thinks we shall be dependent on the sense of family as a survival strategy in a society stressed out by exploding medical costs and by old people shunted away. Of necessity we shall return to a “stone age model” that will enrich us and bring happiness and enable us to deal with the future!

(Übers.: P.J. Blumenthal)

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