Painted in 2008 shortly after the Blacker Gachet series , the via negative series is a continuation of the the theme of un quench able longing , the paintings are painted in oil rich paint , causing the flowers of Van Gogh's dream of ultimate communication through art turn to an unsettling nightmare weeping and wrinkling, positing that such high ideals were coming to an end with the possibility a future bankruptcy of the power of images ., 13 were painted to go along side the 13 blacker Gachet , echoing Van Goghs musings that every portrait should hang alongside a flower painting.
Exhibited:
Blacker Gold, Solo exhibition, Haunch of Venison, Berlin
