This image emerged one afternoon after a rainstorm over a Hagelands field. The clouds blew over. The sun was setting. The windmills stood out sharply against the clouds, while the maize fields below bathed for a moment in the last sunlight.
The contrast was so strong that I immediately took out my camera.
With the newly fallen rain, the sky became intensely blue and the colour of the wet crops stronger, the contrast greater.
For me, this image shows how quickly the mood of the landscape can change: from dramatic to peaceful, from threatening to bright, or vice versa.
The wind turbines look like an army advancing under symbolic dark clouds. Ready to overwhelm another, smaller but more numerous army of corn soldiers. Who is stronger? The yellow or the blue? Or is this simply a nice colour contrast with dynamic lines after all.
The whole thing is also a symbol of the power of
contrast: nature and technology, light and dark, stillness and movement.
In an interior, this work gives off a powerful, dynamic energy and is a reminder that beauty often lies in
tensions and contradictions.
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…