In this work and miniature world 'ARMADA: AT SIAL 2024' I let worlds converge and flow in a layered collage. On the one hand, through the art forms used such as watercolour, photography and digital technology; on the other, there are the distant worlds, skies, heavens and seas traversed, crossed and passed in all possible forms, whether emotional, spiritual , psychic or physical. Yet again and again, the big comes together and overflows into the precious because vulnerable small as precisely in that colour, that incidence of light, depth or shape in which circles may once again become round. Here, too, inaudibly silent worlds of their own are hidden behind the visible, seemingly mundane of a familiar horizon and sky. Here sun, sea, earth, land, sky and times come together.
Anyone who looks and listens attentively hears and sees the hushed depths in the light echoing the green rushing silence. The light can also flood a person with melancholy in a paradoxical longing for other times in which experiencing this freedom, this sensation of the overwhelming, was not a matter of course and in which, precisely in this, one had to fight to stay upright and make it to the end of the day at all.
In retrospect, looking at the world(s) through a different window and from a different vantage point, it was all more than worth it to be back in those days for a while.
It was the time when the melting water of black snow gradually took on colour. The house overlooking a new horizon stands again on indestructible foundations. The question is what I want on the wall. The images I see pass by like a slide show against and in the.. Read more…