In this work and miniature world 'OUT OF THE BLUE' I allow worlds to 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 distant worlds, skies, heavens and seas that have been traversed, crossed and passed in all possible forms, whether emotional, spiritual , psychological or physical. Yet again and again, the big comes together and flows over 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.
Whoever looks and listens attentively hears and sees the hushed depths in the light echoing the blue rustling, approaching silence of a promise of once, then and there. Light can also flood a person with melancholy in a paradoxical longing back to other times when experiencing promise, of freedom, this sensation of the overwhelming, was not a given. This promise dissolves that of another, blacker promise, off and on.
In retrospect, looking at the world(s) through a different window and from a different vantage point, it was all more than worth it.
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…