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Shadows
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'Cycles Of Shadows' is a series of ink drawings that were published as deviations every New Moon for four months. The drawings are numbered as phases, referring to the movement of celestial bodies, and also to the growth of living organisms. But hopefully there is room for more intuitive interpretation as well.
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objective/subjective
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For 'A map, not the territory', I used Googlemaps satellite-pictures; as image source and for the composition of the drawing. By making a drawing of these pictures, I made it into a map. You might say that this is the objective part of the drawing.
I added abstract forms to the drawing, to represent my personal associations with the area, that the map is a reference to. So that would be the subjective part of the drawing.
As a map this drawing is useless, because the area this map refers to, and my personal relation to it, are not given. This leaves the spectator with the drawing as is.
I added abstract forms to the drawing, to represent my personal associations with the area, that the map is a reference to. So that would be the subjective part of the drawing.
As a map this drawing is useless, because the area this map refers to, and my personal relation to it, are not given. This leaves the spectator with the drawing as is.
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Philosophy in blue
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'Beyond Light and Darkness' is more about thought than about depicting the visual world.
Although it is, like thought, related in some way to the visual, but only as a starting point.
Light and darkness are essential for the perception of the visual world and are essential for the artist when depicting anything visual. We cannot perceive when there is only darkness and we cannot perceive when there's only light. Any distinct forms will disappear when light and darkness are not together in the picture.
So can we go beyond Light and Darkness?
In our thoughts maybe, like in philosophy we can go beyond Good and Evil; and think of them as two contrasting terms that are only in our mind, but seem so real as right and wrong.
Although it is, like thought, related in some way to the visual, but only as a starting point.
Light and darkness are essential for the perception of the visual world and are essential for the artist when depicting anything visual. We cannot perceive when there is only darkness and we cannot perceive when there's only light. Any distinct forms will disappear when light and darkness are not together in the picture.
So can we go beyond Light and Darkness?
In our thoughts maybe, like in philosophy we can go beyond Good and Evil; and think of them as two contrasting terms that are only in our mind, but seem so real as right and wrong.
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Sepia and black
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For 'Dodo' I've used sepia coloured inks. This colour is associated with old pictures, since before photos were black and white, they were sepia and white. The subject of the drawing was extinct far before photography was available, so the original imagery you find on the dodo are drawings, mostly in the form of black and white prints.
The only place the bird was found was on Mauritius a small island in the Indian Ocean. It's extinction was caused by the Dutch who occupied the island in the 17th century. Only one of the crimes of the VOC...
I put the bird on one of the strange rocks that are near Mauritius; as a pedestal.
The only place the bird was found was on Mauritius a small island in the Indian Ocean. It's extinction was caused by the Dutch who occupied the island in the 17th century. Only one of the crimes of the VOC...
I put the bird on one of the strange rocks that are near Mauritius; as a pedestal.
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Shades of black
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'And the burning bombers fell through his dreams' was made with a rotring pen and ink wash.
The rotring is a technical drawing pen that comes in line widths of 0.18, 0.25, 0.35 and 0.50.
For the lines in this drawing, a pen of 0.18 was used.
Ink wash is a traditionally East-Asian technique using black ink diluted with water.
Comparable with water colour; the grey ink can be made darker with transparant layers.
The choice of material was also conceptual. The pen refers to the drawing boards where the bombers and the hydrogen bomb found their origin; as the dark side of technical advances.
The ink wash symbolizes the pollution that was the result of the nuclear tests on atolls like Enewetak; all because of Cold War hysteria.
In 'The terminal beach' Ballard places his protagonist on the island after the test are completed. Traven slowly loses his mind, or is the island his new state of mind?
The rotring is a technical drawing pen that comes in line widths of 0.18, 0.25, 0.35 and 0.50.
For the lines in this drawing, a pen of 0.18 was used.
Ink wash is a traditionally East-Asian technique using black ink diluted with water.
Comparable with water colour; the grey ink can be made darker with transparant layers.
The choice of material was also conceptual. The pen refers to the drawing boards where the bombers and the hydrogen bomb found their origin; as the dark side of technical advances.
The ink wash symbolizes the pollution that was the result of the nuclear tests on atolls like Enewetak; all because of Cold War hysteria.
In 'The terminal beach' Ballard places his protagonist on the island after the test are completed. Traven slowly loses his mind, or is the island his new state of mind?
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