In this work and miniature world 'SOLITARY' 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 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 shape 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 the green calm of a blue sea. Anyone who looks and listens attentively hears and sees the hushed depths in the light echoing the green rustling, approaching silence. Light can also flood a person with melancholy in a paradoxical longing back to other times of solitude when experiencing this freedom, this sensation of the overwhelming, was not a given.
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…