Majlinda 2010

Gazmend Freitag painted ‘Majlinda’ on a canvas measuring 60 by 70 cm, and it’s really something. Just imagine Freitag in the thick of it, slinging paint around, trying to wrangle that feeling into something solid. The way he's handled the brush, it's like he’s coaxing the scene out of thin air, dab after dab. There's a beautiful awkwardness to it all, a kind of searching. I see this figure, maybe Majlinda, standing there in her white dress, with a black purse, surrounded by a crowd of other figures. It's like a dream, almost. I wonder what Freitag was thinking about? Was he trying to capture a fleeting moment, or maybe something deeper? You know, painting is so cool because it doesn't give you all the answers. It’s more like a conversation, where the artist throws something out there, and we, the viewers, get to jump in and add our own thoughts. It makes you think about art as this ongoing thing, where we’re all just riffing off each other, trying to make sense of the world in our own messy, beautiful ways.