landscape 35X50 cm on paper . watercolor painting . What is my painting? I look at the landscape, and each time anew, I must remind myself of the simple, yet not obvious, fact that when I compare it to the painting I will create—not of the landscape itself, but inspired by it or in relation to it—it will essentially be the landscape from my own world. The dimensions I will introduce with color, and where there is no color, the lines, the stains, the way they are applied. On one hand, this is so simple and resolved for me, yet on the other hand, this matter returns to me every time anew: how much the external world is ingrained in me, and how much I must create my own world each time anew to overcome it. Because the external world persists, while my own world must be created from zero to one hundred each time anew. In this sense, the painting is not a picture as a final product but a one-time, experiential, intellectual, and emotional formulation of my world in an artistic medium . I...