DUNE: A DISTANT TUNE by Ted van den Aarssen

About "DUNE: A DISTANT TUNE"

by Ted van den Aarssen

About the artwork

In this work and miniature world 'DUNE: A DISTANT TUNE' 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 distant worlds, skies, heavens and seas traversed, crossed and passed in all possible forms, whether emotional, spiritual , psychic 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. This is where sun, sea, earth, land, sky and times come together.
Anyone who looks and listens attentively hears and sees the different worlds coming together again: the approaching violence of silence in the storm. So often one cannot do without the other.
All this 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 the storm that was experienced and lived through in pitch black.
In retrospect, looking at the world(s) through a different window and from a different vantage point, it was all so much more than worth it.