Painting "Seekers of Truth" and Jug for Five, 2025

The works “Seekers of Truth” and “A Jug for Five” form a unified whole and are sold together.

“Seekers of Truth” and “A Jug for Five”

Diptych, acrylic on canvas

120 × 150 cm and 120 × 100 cm

“A Jug for Five”

2025

High-fired ceramics, 50 cm

The painting depicts people in a state of confusion and uncertainty, reflecting our contemporary condition of living within uncontrolled streams of information. Different viewpoints intertwine in thoughts and conversations, and it often becomes unclear what to think or what one is supposed to think. Truth dissolves between multiple voices and interpretations.

The painting shows five people, each attempting in their own way to assert their version of truth. In front of them stands the ceramic object “A Jug for Five”, which has five spouts with drinking straws. The jug is covered by a golden balloon serving as a lid—fragile and easily burst. At any moment it may collapse into the vessel itself, suggesting the instability and mutability of truth.

In its form, the jug also resembles a jester’s hat, hinting that in today’s information environment we are all, in some sense, fools of our own truths and convictions.