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Give peace a chance

(Peace is the opposite of war
Peace is the power of impotence.)

Questioning feelings
Distrusting interventions
Accusing preferences
Dismantling narratives

Person-centered
Event-driven
Outcome-oriented
Chaos-savvy
Open-ended

Attention to the

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(War is the opposite of opportunity.
War is the power of emotions.)

Emotion Colossus
Clique Dirt
Envy Paradise
Fear Floor
Hunger Dungeon
Chameleon Effect

(Make friends with having
little power,
except over yourself.)

Poem by Kirstin Breitenfellner
We live and then we are dead
Mortality weights

Tags:

Paintings / Canvas / Oil / Figurative / Fantasy

Ellen Semen

Österreich

Characteristics and Vita

Ellen Semen was born in Hamburg in 1971. She studied painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart (1992-2001) with Prof. Peter Chevalier (1996-1999), at the Surikov Institute in Moscow (1998), at the École des Beaux-Arts in Marseille (1999) and art and intermedial design with Sotorius Michou in Stuttgart (1999-2001).

In 1999 Semen received the Academy Award of the Academy of Arts Stuttgart for painting and the scholarship Marseille (Franco-German Youth Work). In 1998 the scholarship Moscow (Künstlerweg e.V.).