The work Slow Sky features an arrangement of fortified structures, places of refuge from the outside, painted based on photographs Betzer had gleaned from the virtual world. This work is in fact an expansion of the artist’s previous paintings series exploring hunting lodges and hunters, and further examines the significance of home – both metal and physical. The bunkers protruding above ground with their alienation are rooted in nature. The thick sky veils the structures, as though blurring the traces they had left in it.
The still nature is interrupted by the figure of the hunter, dominating the hunted and destabilizing the pastoral silence by introducing the subject of control and balance of powers.

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