In this work and miniature world 'WINDOW DRESSING' 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 distant worlds, skies, heavens and seas 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 form 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 colours and approaching silence. The light can also flood a person with melancholy in a paradoxical longing for other times in which experiencing these colours, this freedom in a different light and sensation of the overwhelming, was not a matter of course and in which one had to fight to stay upright in the absence of all this.
In retrospect, looking at the world(s) through a different window and illuminated 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…