Transparency and Light: paint following the course of nature, changing with time and lighting conditions. Sometimes you can see it, sometimes not; like a delicate flower and all that this embodies. Each can be seen as three images, and three dimensions in one painting. As life has multiple faces; appearance seen as front and back, and there is a hidden side, the inner spirit where one can experience one's own truth. The submitted image of the Struggle painting was shown with light.

I see things in daily life constituted of lines either as a simple outline or pattern created by lines in man made or natural world. Line is a structure and pattern is life fabric cover in our diverse world. I created a series of figurative painting made of just cotton strings, fibres and unwanted fabrics. 

The Struggle painting was created using multi layer recycled papers with cotton rope, cloth and some wood chips. It is a paper relief sculpture with a hidden image hid inside multiple layers of paper. During the time this painting was created I was under great pain caused from spinal cord imbalance that touching the nerve system as well as experiencing my midlife crisis stresses. 

There was no winter in January this year but spring sunshine with green grass and blue sky where I live in Switzerland. This gave rise to the colour tone for the Struggle painting in blue and green. It meant to depict a happy woman semi nude playing outdoor, my favourite subject for painting. Unknowingly and unconsciously I vented my anger and frustration thoughts of midlife crisis trouble and wanting to fight against my pain which was apparent on the painting. 

I wanted to explore the relationship between a normal joyful being on the surface of a person and what happened behind its façade that one sees everyday life. Through only in close contact it lights oneself and makes it transparent, a man hidden trauma experience as I had at that moment in time. There are many like me out there. Struggle in life and cry for freedom that one always wishes but what is the cost for achieving it? Only a passage of time will tell.