Early in the morning, when the mist still hangs low over the meadow, a horse grazes under the sleek lines of two wind turbines.
This is the Hageland as I experience it every day: rural and modern at the same time. The huge sky forms a soft gradient from cool blue to warm grey. Below is a thin band of fog that adds depth to the landscape.
I love this kind of counterpoint: technique and animal, stillness and movement, which together form a peaceful balance.
The turbines are not in the way; they write invisible circles above the field with their blades, like poetic clean lines on a pastel watercolour.
The image is deliberately broadly framed so that the openness can speak and the horse remains a hidden anchor point, to be discovered just a little later.
In an interior, it acts as a breathing panorama; it matches modern and rural spaces and reminds every day of the gentle mornings that are so peculiar here.
Whispering Fields captures the timeless beauty of the Hageland: the golden glow over hills, but also the silent wonder of a flower, a fluff or weed in the sun. Each detail is given a poetic charge and shows the timeless beauty of the everyday, translated into fine.. Read more…