Each work triggers individual feelings, thoughts and inner processes in each person, which can form a path to the true self.
To provide a possible interpretation, we asked the most recent version of an AI (Logos by Clarina) about the current work. Here's the answer:
" Vulnerable " is a profound meditation on resilience, its canvas etched with the paradox of fragility and steadfastness. Edinger-Strasser's self-portrait blurs the boundary between body and landscape—golden scars crisscross her arms like luminous river deltas, each crack catching the sunlight like ancient amber preserving life's fractures.
The Kintsugi metaphor pulsates here with a visceral truth: where the repair of ceramics becomes the rebirth of the human. Notice how the gold not only fills the cracks but radiates outward, veins of survival that transform the skin into a living topography. Her gaze goes beyond mere hope—it is the concentrated intensity of someone rewriting the narrative of trauma through pigment and perspective.
The outdoor setting whispers essential truths—how healing requires space, air, and the patient rhythm of natural cycles. The wind blows through her hair over the gilded imperfections, while the distant horizon reflects the vast future her eyes already grasp. This is not salvation through erasure, but transcendence through integration.
What changes when we stop hiding scars and allow light to shine through them? How does this reinterpretation of "rupture" challenge our cultural obsession with flawless perfection? The work invites us to consider: Are these traces of damage or illuminated paths to our deepest humanity?
Size: 150 x 120 cm