FLOWER BED IN ORANGE by Ted van den Aarssen

About "FLOWER BED IN ORANGE"

by Ted van den Aarssen

About the artwork

In this work and miniature world 'BLOEMBED IN ORANGE' I allow worlds to converge and flow in a layered collage. On the one hand, through the art forms used like watercolour, photography and digital technique, on the other, there are the worlds, skies, heavens, seas and times traversed, crossed and passed through 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. Here sun, sea, earth, land, sky and times come together.
Whoever looks and listens attentively hears and sees the hushed warm echo of all possible quiet and also at the same time warm shades of orange. depth in the light echo of the green rustling, approaching silence. The 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 it was precisely in this that one had to fight to stay upright and make it to the end of the day at all.
In retrospect, looking at the world(s) through a different window and from a different vantage point, it was all more than worth it.