What I Carry Forward
Acrylics on Canvas
49,5 x 59 cm, 2026
This work explores the idea of balance not as perfection, but as integration. The surface contains many layers: transparent colours, geometric structures, traces of previous decisions, and marks that were not originally intended to remain. Instead of removing these elements, they were gradually absorbed into the composition.
Balance here is not the result of purification or correction. It emerges through the acceptance of irregularities, shifts, and imperfections. What initially appears as an error can become a necessary part of the structure.
The work reflects a process of personal equilibrium: not a final state where everything unresolved has disappeared, but a dynamic condition in which different layers coexist. In this sense, balance is not achieved by eliminating what does not fit, but by allowing it to remain and become part of the whole.
Photography: Nathanael Gautschi
Date:
March 13, 2026