The second period in 3d was quite different than the first one. Whereas the “big thing” was to break your old opinions about art and to work more “interesting, but not nice or ‘right’”, this time we had a real theme we had to work with during the whole period. This theme was “ontmoeting – meeting”. The first lesson consisted of a search for a definition; we had to discuss this in small groups. After a range of examples what a meeting could be, named by the other people in my group, I noticed that, seen in a general way, it was always the same we were talking about. Finally, EVERYTHING can be a meeting, life itself is one, between yourself and everything else. But as soon as you want to make a little difference you have to be a bit more exact. So I had the following theory: Two or more things or persons need to have some sort of communication or interaction in order to have a connection to each other which would isolate them from all the rest of the existing world. This would mean that you pay a special attention to something while you have a meeting with it, otherwise it would not be a meeting. Language itself is just a way to make definitions, without language “everything could be everything”. We all are confronted with a lot of things or persons every second in our life. But we are not able to pay the same amount of attention to everyone and everything at the same time. In every moment of our life we have something we pay special attention to, might be a person we talk to or a lamp we are looking at. Of course we also realize the context or surrounding, but we are not really aware of it, or we don’t give a special meaning to it. We always have just one thing we really focus on – at least in a BEWUSST way – and this is what I mean with the communication – which can also be just a visual one or whatever – in order to get a special connection that leads to a (mental) isolation to all the rest. This means of course that a meeting – in the way I see it – is a very temporary thing. It changes every moment at least a bit and is nothing else than a permanent process, like life itself.
The try to make this visible was what you can see in the photo under this part of the text. I took a normal room – could have been everyone – and changed the color of several elements I found in it in order to isolate them optically from the rest and get a special connection just between these elements. This was a try to create a meeting in a very abstract way, but it’s also a meeting between the viewer and the work. I chose to work with red, because it’s a signal color and asks for attention. While moving in the room, your view and position of course always changes, so you have a new meeting every moment. I even included a “moving point” to show the different levels of what a meeting in a temporary context can be. During this process I got the personal direction I wanted to take. For me it’s not enough to visualize the theme (when you read the text above you can see how complex it finally is), I also wanted to create a meeting between people and my work. Interaction is a good word for that. I wanted to see how people would react to it and also learn for myself from these reactions, which is finally even a meeting between my work, the people, their reactions and myself. This sounds of course very complex if you try to put it in words. It’s more a feeling I have which is better to understand if you just look at the pictures.
I don’t know what to write more. This is the main direction I’m going to right now. I made something out of the theme we got which would also be for myself in order to learn – meeting in the sense of interaction. This is very new for me and very interesting, because I think I can learn a lot of it. About the human behavior when you see yourself confrontated with something you don’t know. I guess I haven’t chosen this direction for nothing. I think a lot about connection between the things, which was e.g. also my big thing in 2D. For now I let pictures talk in this sector, maybe it’s good to read the part of Beeld & Concept, I will also write sort of common conclusion and publish it here on the page.
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