Those who are here again 2002

"Those Who Are Here Again" is an ambiguous and eerie landscape painted by Daniel Richter, who was born in Germany in 1962. Richter’s early work was influenced by his political engagement with the anti-establishment, left-wing politics of the punk scene. The figures in this dreamlike scene are rendered in unnatural colors that evoke a sense of unease and alienation. The spectral beings seem to inhabit a space between worlds. Richter blurs the line between figuration and abstraction, unsettling conventional ways of seeing. Drawing from diverse sources, Richter creates a unique visual language to express the complexities of contemporary experience. About this piece, Richter said, "The figures are ciphers." The figures in "Those Who Are Here Again" become stand-ins for larger questions of identity and history. The work asks us to consider how we come to terms with the past and find our place in the present.