Godwin Laus: the Edge of Reality

The line between abstraction or figuration blurs, fades and loses meaning. Another world emerges from a painting, a personal and distinctive world, related to what is seen but not enslaved by it.

“When the veil of reality lifts, and an ordinary situation becomes strange, foreign and familiar all at the same time, a dreamlike state.”

There are moments during an ordinary day, when reality thins briefly, revealing something unusual, unexplainable, a hint of a darker, stranger reality that is lying underneath the one which we experience every day.

"I did not want to go out of my way to depict the strange, or the unexplainable and the bizarre. I wanted these feelings to permeate through the works very subtly just like the feeling itself, brief, fleeting, to be read between the lines." – Godwin Laus