I was inspired by “The Scream” by Edvard Munch, 1893, see www.wallister.de/en. It states: “… ‘The Scream’ is often interpreted as an expression of existential fear and human suffering.”
Meanwhile, we’re experiencing an increasingly felt shift to the right worldwide, war, famine, and climate catastrophe. Instead of real politics that addresses these difficulties, we have a politics that gets tangled up in side issues. For example, some claim that “gendering” is a “must” and that the compulsion to include marginalized groups is outrageous. Others deny problems entirely, like the statement that the sun is to blame for global warming and not humans. Many people seem unsettled by all this and want a stability that doesn’t exist in life. After all, life is change, just as language is. However, people crave that stability which is located in old times: “Everything was better back then.” And then they run like brainless zombies, like “The Walking Dead,” after those who make empty promises of this fictitious stability and shift the blame onto marginalized groups.
2025, pencil drawing on watercolor paper,
20×30 cm, with frame 30×40 cm