Marcel Eichner was heavily influenced by German Expressionism, the aesthetics of which originated in the 1920s and are characterized broadly by depictions of distorted realities that encourage emotional responses.

Eichner intends to represent daily scenes as they would seem in a world without social norms to constrain our most complex and repressed emotions. He is interested in capturing emotional responses - "not how things look or should be, but how they feel like." The artist chooses to render spaces where he has developed memories and personal associations, generally in interior household settings.

Through a dark imaginative lens, the artist reacts to the feelings and thoughts that result from being in a familiar surr...