run, woman, run, too

1999-2000

oil on linen

triptych, each panel 90 x 85 cm

 

 

 

I answered an ad promising a free IKEA desk top. The eyes of the Woman who answered the door were ringed in dark purple-reds. She was carrying a baby phone. The sketch to this painting followed soon thereafter. It was not a conscious process.

Then, while working on the painting an older Woman told me about her earliest memory: it was night, the sky was all lit up and her mother was pushing her in a stroller, running through the woods. She remembers the bombing as something that was fun.

Ulla Seidel's Story