BALANCING SKYLINES by Ted van den Aarssen

In this work and miniature world 'BALANCING SKYLINES' 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 technique, on the other, there are the worlds, skies, heavens, seas and times traversed, crossed and passed in all possible forms, whether emotional, spiritual , psychological 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 form in which circles become round again and are allowed to form one whole. Here quiet, private worlds are hidden behind the visible, seemingly mundane of a familiar horizon, sky and timeline. Here sun, sea, earth, land, sky and times come together.
It is here the balance that speaks. It is the echo of an oncoming silence after an endless time of building from scratch. The light can also flood a person with melancholy in a paradoxical longing back to other times when experiencing this freedom, this balance, this sensation of the overwhelming, was not a matter of course and
where it was already an art to fight to stay upright and make it to the end of the day at all.
In retrospect, looking at the world and the sky through a different window and from a different vantage point, it was all more than worth it.

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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 foreground and background of a seemingly empty, silent wall. Nothing is what it seems or seems to be.
Then again I am standing by the sea in winter. The sea has never been so quiet. A sky is steel blue in the reflection of ice crystals floating high by, breaking and exploding the light in known and unknown colours.
You are standing on the horizon. At a glance I translate the impression into watercolour, ecoline, pen and ink. Later I will add some white balance and infinite shutter speeds and aperture values. The depth of field may be unlimited this time. Everything is allowed to flow together again. The megapixels will be allowed to carry the message.
My favourite work? It is that window overlooking my winter at sea.
I found another zoning plan among the blueprints. The building can also be used as a store.
The lockdown of my home furnishing shop is over. For me, keeping my distance means being close to the people in the most essential sense of the word. It is my life in and from the Paradox.
Both the unsuspecting and the keen-sighted and hearing passer-by may see their own reflection and a different beckoning perspective in the clear glass of the shop window.

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