Girl Reading

“The flower still life’s sentimental, yet irresistible beauty acted as a punctuation mark to the overall rather sombre mood… Art and beauty are the preserves of hope in the face of an often hard-to-bear reality. Beauty is the opposite of destruction, disintegration and damage.” — Gerhard Richter, Panorama

The airy atmosphere of Gerhard Richter’s Girl Reading was the inspiration for this work.