Space Deforming Fish, 2020

Olja
150 x 100 cm

The fish image is inspired by Einstein's general theory of relativity in which a hyper-mass object generates a gravitational field by warping the geometry of the surrounding space-time. "Ichthys" (which means "fish" in Greek) was the secret symbol adopted by early Christians. The painting thus becomes a metaphor for the way Christianity has (de-)formed our world.