In this work and miniature world 'CLOUDBURST' 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 time 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 again become round. And become one again. Here, too, inaudibly silent, worlds of their own are hidden behind the visible, seemingly mundane of a familiar horizon, sky and timeline. 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 the approaching silence. This light can also flood a person with melancholy in a paradoxical longing for other times in which experiencing this freedom, this sensation of the overwhelming, was not a matter of course and in which, precisely in this, one had to fight to stay upright.
In retrospect, looking at the world(s), the sea, the sky and the old times 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…