Suddenly,
facing Christel Hansson’s paintings and graphic art, facing the light
falling in them, the sense of repose in midst of dissolution, Seneca
comes to my mind (4 BC – 65 AD): “If you do not seize the vanishing
day, it will fade away”.
It is not mainly the
moral-philosophical challenge that I find linked with the pictures, but
more the contradiction in a striving to hold down something that is
absolutely not possible to contain: light and time. The act of creation
itself mirrors the vanity of this intent.
Since: “Even if you seize him, still he vanishes”
Lasse Söderberg
translation: Gunilla Falck
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