“Ondergaan” is a personal project about the artists’ experience with chronic pain. The interactive painting takes the participant through a cycle of chronic pain consisting of three different stages. The first stage is destruction; the moment of pain where you can see a dark texture taking over the surroundings and a huntress, who stands as a symbol for the natural cycle of life and death. The second painting is about isolation; the mental impact of chronic pain, here we see a saint who bears a headdress too heavy and large for one. The final painting is about rebuilding where the participant brings the painting from abstract to figurative and here comes a landhealer forth. From here the cycle continues again towards destruction, stating that a healing process is not indefinite and is not the last step in a lineair journey but a part of a circular motion. The interactive painting illustrates acceptance in the circularity of unpleasant experiences.
