SOMEWHERE SOMETIME by Ted van den Aarssen

About "SOMEWHERE SOMETIME"

by Ted van den Aarssen

About the artwork

In this work and miniature world 'SOMEWHERE SOMETIME' 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 that have been traversed, crossed and passed through in all possible forms, whether emotional, spiritual , psychological 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.
Whoever looks and listens attentively hears and sees the hushed depths in the light echo of the green-purple 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, precisely in this, one had to fight to stay upright in the deep blackness of one's own experienced emptiness without any eloquence and where every second meant a total emptiness of a universe.
In retrospect, looking at the world(s) through and at a different window and from a different vantage point, it was all more than worth it.