It is the end of August and that means that we are slowly moving towards September, autumn. For me something to look forward to every year, because autumn is by far my favorite time of the year. I always experience summer as a restless time. I like autumn so much because nature takes a step back in autumn, the landscape settles down and prepares for winter. It's a movement that suits me well. It's actually pretty crazy that we people start up in September. Schools are starting again, projects are starting again. If we follow nature, we take a step back in September.
I took that step back in the summer. First by staying in a quiet place in the Pyrenees for a long time; and then by visiting the Arles Photo Festival and following portfolio reviews. Both were wonderful experiences!
Mainly as a result of the portfolio reviews in Arles, back home with all the summer turmoil, I threw myself into studying Anselm Kiefer - "can heaven bear the weight of the earth" - and Wassily Kandinsky - "the necessity that art should always represent the inner sound of things". These statements, about the essence from which these fascinating artists work, touch and inspire me. Studying and sparring with other artists inspires and nourishes me anyway. It contributes to getting my own path increasingly clear, to trust it and to stay true to my own essence: by creating, I investigate what's on my mind and touches me. With that I come a little closer to who I am essentially or, to use Kandinsky's words: to my inner sound.
That thought, that it's about imagining my inner sound - and that that is a necessity - inspires me enormously to create new work. I am very busy with that! At the moment I am researching what the colour of my inner sound is. What and how do I envision that? Experimenting with colour and shape is the way for me to research that. First thing to do, I thought, was to step out of my comfort zone, so let's get started with yellow and blue. The photos below give an impression of my experiment. It can still 'simmer' for a while or are they finished? Which is always an interesting question by the way.
Anyway, I'm also curious what the other colours will bring me.
I wish you a beautiful colourful autumn!
The images below were made in Collioure (France)
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