MORNING CAME: CLOSING UP IN OLD TEARS by Ted van den Aarssen

About "MORNING CAME: CLOSING UP IN OLD TEARS"

by Ted van den Aarssen

About the artwork

In the work and miniature world 'MORNING CAME: CLOSING UP IN OLD TEARS' 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 technology; 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 those who look and listen attentively hear and see the hushed depths in the light echo of the green rustling silence and all the possible colours that roam there. The work is also a close-up of 'MORNING CAME' and the melancholy in a paradoxical longing back to other times when experiencing these colours and silence, this freedom was not a matter of course and when one had to fight to make it to the end of the day at all and slowly, step by step struggle through the valley.
In retrospect, looking at the world(s) and reflecting on a different time, through a different window, it was all more than worth it. The work certainly has an affinity with Psalm 23 as well.
For the connoisseur, the deeper you get into the darkness and desolation of the valley, the closer a person gets to the top.