The limit of

This happens to be the border at Državni Gozd, a border-crossing between Austria and Slovenia. In 2017 this frontier didn’t represent much anymore, but when I passed here in 1976, still rigorous controls were executed. In those days one passed from Austria to Yugoslavia, a country that was not part of Nato and also not part of the Warsaw Pact. But in this painting I’m not really concerned with this particular border, more so with boundaries in general. In 2019 (and actually already in the ‘70’s of course), we stumbled upon the climate boundaries. The question is whether humanity is able to survive if we don’t change our behavior in this respect. And now in 2020, we're confronted with another boundary: the Coronavirus that causes a global pandemic.