2013
Present Time
Cracking Cobra / Honours Programme Cobra Museum Amstelveen
Starting point for the work is the metaphor of a
mountain within the Zen garden, applied as a ‘bridge’ between concepts in Western
and Eastern philosophies. Present Time
creates a space for this bridge by juxtaposing different forms. On the one hand
the transformation of a huge mountain into a 2 dimensional small ‘object’. On
the other hand changing the representation by using another perspective,
looking from above. It raises awareness and questions how do we see and feel 2
and 3 dimensional spaces? The scale of large
and small get lost somehow, by creating a feeling of illusion about the space
where one is present. The viewer is forced to look at a ‘bigger picture’,
forget the usual way of observation, which is meant to open up a wider horizon
for ourselves and how we interpret our surrounding and perhaps ourselves in
life.
“The climbing of a mountain represent how to see the big picture - in life - from above; you realize how fragile
and precious life can be and gives a possibility learn more to be in the
present.”
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