sauna day

~21 x 22 cm, ink on paper, 2020

A sauna usually is an intimate place and commonplace at the same time. A sauna is a kind of sanctuary for me because of its similarity with funerals and laboring. Perhaps also because of the nakedness of people there.

The bodies here look like drawn with ashes. This is because of a special technique using ink and tempera which causes such an ash effect recalling of death.