A SUN ROSE by Ted van den Aarssen

In the miniature 'A SUN ROSE, images of worlds come together in a layered collage in combined forms of expression like watercolour, ecoline, pen and ink, photography and digital techniques like modelling with pixels.
This is the layered material side. But there is also the transcendent, mystical Other Side of invisible worlds. Of skies, skies and depths of a universe, of seas in every possible guise. Collages and compressed images of time and space traversed, passed and lived through emotionally, spiritually, psychically and physically. It is the common denominator of all the works and where the whole puzzle is greater than the sum of its parts.
Time and again, everything comes together in that limitless spectrum of colour, light and light (in)fall. In forms where circles become round again and where the space I live in is hidden in the visible, seemingly mundane of a familiar horizon: the timeline of here and now. Ready for a future time that waits and lies before me.
This light can still flood me with melancholy in a paradoxical longing back to other times. When existence in the manic unlimited was a given. But where later also had to fight to stay upright, to make it to the end of the day at all. It was the time when the all-consuming bipolarity coursed and stormed through years of my life and extreme limits of this spectrum had to and were allowed to be lived through.
In retrospect, looking at the world(s) through the window of here and now and from a different point of view and perspective, this journey through the seas of time was more than worthwhile.
And with that, each work is also a passage from a log and scrapbook of few words, a snapshot, a snapshot. A postcard from when life mainly took place in a dark room.