Brand new art print by Hans Henrik Fischer. The art print is created after the original oil painting with the same title, which was exhibited at the art fair Art Herning 2023.
When the artist so often paints children, it is an expression of artistic symbolism, where the child is a figurative, realistic symbol of the unspoiled. Children symbolize something pure and innocent that is polluted, corrupted and destroyed by growing up in our culture.
In this work, a crying girl is seen sitting in a dark room wearing a kind of straitjacket. However, there is a small hope in the form of the small colorful bird with sparkling Disney eyes. The girl probably has a desire to be "free as a bird" - at least you as a viewer wish that on her behalf and other children behalf.
Some of the bird's feathers are floating around the girl - how should that be interpreted?