The space, resembling an empty room with a window, is presented as a kind of metaphor for the two positions in which the subject finds itself: the inner and the outer. The room is the subject itself; beyond the window lies the world.
Something resembling a tulle curtain hangs in the window opening. In the colour and shape of its geometric planes, the work has an anxious character. Tension can be felt in the lines. The grey tone conveys low spirits and a gloomy mood. The walls of the metaphorical room are uncomfortably cold, and the dark planes of shadow press down. One wants to get out of this room.
If you step back and do not sink into the constraining atmosphere of the image, a figure begins to emerge in the shadows of the tulle and gradually becomes recognisable. A familiar silhouette is imperceptibly woven into the symbolic field and rests at the junction of inner and outer, forming a dimension of meaning that abolishes the deadlock that has arisen. Three dark geometric shapes are arranged to depict a swallow darting away. The two black wings and the tail appear to the viewer in a new light.
The swallow is a symbol of renewal: every spring, returning home, the little bird sets off another cycle of life. Once this is discovered, the dispirited tone of the work takes on a positive shade. Now the joyless reality of being unable to break free from the oppressive confinement of the walls gives way to the discovery of the ability to expand one’s own space to the world the swallow inhabits: the sky and the earth.