In the work and miniature world 'WINTERZEE' 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 and seas crossed and passed over in all possible forms, whether emotional, spiritual or physical. Yet again and again, the big comes together and spills over into the precious because fragile small as just that colour, that incidence of light, depth or shape in which circles may again become circular. Here, too, inaudibly silent worlds of their own are hidden behind the visible, seemingly mundane of a familiar horizon and sky. This is where sun, sea, earth, land and sky come together.
And anyone who looks and listens attentively hears and sees the hushed depth in the light echo of the blue and the lighting up of the sleet, hoarfrost and snow: as a landscape can then light up at full moon. Then there is the melancholy in a paradoxical longing back to other times when experiencing this emotion was not a matter of course and when every second of the day passed like a dead midwinter day.
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…