In this work and miniature world 'AWAKENING' 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. This is where sun, sea, earth, land, sky and times come together.
It is here that colours and sounds breathe the promise of the predestined new. The light can also flood a person with melancholy in a paradoxical longing for other times in which experiencing this freedom, this promise, was not a matter of course and in which one had to fight to stay upright, to reach the end of the day and where the next second already seemed unattainable.
In retrospect, looking at the world(s) through a different window and from a different vantage point and in a different light, it was all so much 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…