"Why can't we talk , at least?" , by Erik Pevernagie, oil on canvas,100 x 80 cm

We may sometimes wonder what is going on in the back of the mind. We would like to understand what happens in the mood of all those people who live on the edge of loneliness and emotional poverty.

They seem to be denied of every sense of community and expelled from any intimacy. Feeling deserted by affection, some are like life outcasts, deprived of physical or linguistic contact and might be drinking their way out, finally reduced to silence.

Conversation is the foundation of a democratic coherence. But when they haven’t learned to talk, they are often only intersecting and using merely monologues. There is no conversation or no dialogue.

In this process, many still prefer to short circuit any dialogue and blow up any attempt to come to a compromise in case of a dispute. Moreover, leaving the arena of discussion in anger and slamming doors is certainly not a brilliant way to solve problems either.

Phenomenon: Communication, dialogue, conversation

Factual starting point of the picture: Back of two men, one leaving