In this painting cycle, Anna Lena Straube confronts the challenges of our time with an affirmative and graceful color spectrum. She juxtaposes the threats and global challenges of the 21st century with a colorfulness that calls us as viewers into a friendly, active present. I see the cycle as an invitation to look deeper and feel what abundance life has in store and I am curious to see what form of activity and togetherness the painter is proposing here. I feel I am meant to be a dancer, a sorceress, a walker, I enter into connections with companions and feel the power of the pictures through the connection between their protagonists. se. (Sandy La S. Schwermer)