the traffic is
banned out of the VaticanI use scale and techniques to enlarge my daily experience in which the
world moves around me as it were.
I start with satellite images available on the internet. That viewpoint
sees the world as if the satellite were the centre point of the universe.
I zoom in towards locations where changes in the public space occur which
are, according to me, significant on a world scale .
Approaching from space the first thing I see are buildings and since the
events which took place on sept 11 2001 in New York city we are no longer
able to zoom in to a level of observable human live forms. ( before 11/9/2001
I could count the amount of cola tins in Berlin Mitte).
From these satellite images I draw basic maps. Subsequently I go to that
location to sample and collect a micro cosmos of leftover materials(garbage).
This loot I lay bare against a background of a big world.
When drawing my loot on the so called sample maps different scales ( geological, time, sociological, philosophical, political, metric) , different measures and different points of views are mixed to show different perspectives at the same time.
Although I use a lot of techniques( television, computer, video/photography, aeroplanes, telephones,) in preparation for my artwork and to look for special locations, I am looking for moments of slow motion, retaining states of rest in highly concentrated forms. Situations offering active resistance to motions impressed. (inert situations).
Where the use of fast techniques are partly abandonned or being inferior to the occasion. As was the case during the funeral of Pope JPII. No traffic in Rome made the public space accesible on a very different way.
the traffic is
banned out of the Vaticanor at Dorfheide near Berlin where the flats of the Russian army are captured by nature again:
That intermediate stage in that highly technical world reveals basic structures, possible leading to a different perception of the world. *
Of course the garbage says a lot about the public space as well. This are items which are not primarily selected. Even better the usually become inert material, buried even to hide temporary from history. Waste give spaces often a temporarily mobile identity.
The purpose is to make an art drawing in which I show my way of looking
to the micro world in a décor of a big world. We all look at the
world with our own background, education, peers….
In the drawing the raw material will be put on scale. So the spectator could
see the ' objective' collection and the interpretation of the artist.
My goal is to built in my daily bombardment of visual - information a
time out, a stand still, to lay out a in between stage of my world. Not
swimming in the flow of accelerations and the illusion of linearity. From
that stage I jump in the moving world again again. There is no beginning
or ending. Only in betweens. Over this basic structure I draw to a melody
chords of different voices in which all the voices have a equal share. Together
they form a harmonious drawing. At least that is what I am aiming at. With
the ultimate goal to influence my perception of the world, i.e.of time.
But at the end you just encounter an artistic impression.
* locations visited: Indonesian District Amsterdam, April 2000; Dam Amsterdam 270102022002; WTCA - Fresh Kills New York City 151020102002; Peace Palace the Hague 250303102004; Berlin - Dorfheide 010507052004; Javastreet Amsterdam 2003/2004/2005; Javastreet Tilburg 31012004;Rome 070409042005; Berlin- Dorfheide April 29- June 5 2005
next visit: Javastreet the Hague, Peace Palace November 2005