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November 2023

- Opening Doors and Gates to Fantasies -

As a motif, doors arouse emotions – regardless of whether they are open or closed, whether you look out into the world or into a room. Doors connect the inside with the outside, the private with the public. They can limit the visible area and at the same time inspire the imagination. This is probably the reason why I like painting doors so much.

On our travels through Oman, I once discovered a door which, as part of the fencing of an extensive desert camp, looked more like a gate. Built between roughly cut slats and wire mesh, it looked so beautiful with its ornately carved, closed wings that I had to paint it straight away, regardless of the heat. I was particularly attracted by the fact that the one smaller, raised door in the right-hand wing was half open and offered a view of an orange-red desert dune. Whilst I was painting, I speculated in my mind about what it was for and was surprised by the solution to the riddle: when my husband and I drove along the coast in the hire car a few days later, road signs began to point out the danger of sand dunes. And indeed, it wasn't long before we came to a settlement where the sand was piled up so high between the simple, low buildings as if the desert wanted to bury the little village beneath it. The sand had also grown into a mountain at the threshold of the houses. Their massive, beautifully carved wooden doors were actually closed, but I saw a man leaving his house through the small door in the right-hand doorway. Now I understood their function.

An Omani door is adapted to life on the edge of the desert. If you don't know that, you might get lost in romantic speculation like me. There are no wild animals to keep out or secret visitors to let in. A picture stands for itself and fires the imagination, but never reveals the whole reality. I can only – tell it.

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