Ernst Caramelle

Ernst Caramelle at Tracy Williams, Ltd.

Double Vision, 2003

Things that happen to you in your life, change your perception and understanding of your world. Those things could be external events, or it could be internal events, like illness. You start young, fresh and full of energy (left edge - green, blue, yellow). But you have a disease (upper left corner burgundy). It creates an obstacle ( the adjacent white figure). it distorts the green and almost blocks blue.You get depressed (the grey figure in the upper center). Those white obstacles are making you bitter and your scope smaller. At the end what left is pragmatism and common sense.

Ernst Caramelle

Caramelle Ernst at Galerie nächst St. Stephan (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Final Cut

You are in the dead end. You are lost. The cold white walls seem to grow sharp corners and edges. You have two choices to get out. One - an easy one into the despair of the night(middle left). It is easy for you now, but you know you will be paying for that for a long long time. The other exist is to cut. To open up the wound and let the blood flow(middle bottom to middle right). It will be painful and hard, but at the end you will get the welcoming warm sun of the day(upper right).