Symbolism
Cherubim I (red)
165 x 95cm, 1980
Tradition knows of cherubim as angels with children’s faces, confronting
and touching each other
with their wing tips.
Lined up in symmetry, they guard the entrance to
paradise; in this context one also speaks of "changing the lights",
i.e., consciousness and unconsciousness are interchanged, one lives and
acts, quite inadvertently, from "the other side" and remains
open toward the eternal.