AND THEN THERE WAS LIGHT 

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In the project And Then There Was Light, I use the direct flashlight of my camera as a material and explore what happens when this light hits the monochrome cylindrical shaped space of a glossy white paper size 70x100cm. The direct flash of my camera, caught in this simple, monochrome space, creates the most diverse formations of shadow and light. Flashlight renders into skeletal shells, animals or plants, underwater worlds and mountain landscapes, the physical dimensions seem to elude us. The fusion of flashlight and glossy white paper, reflections, lines and surfaces, creates its own universe; like a sketchbook of an abstract, but also somehow familiar world. Sometimes I use photographic colour filters to enhance a particular shape. The camera not only creates these images and freezes the results in an instant, but not seen by the naked eye, the camera also becomes the sole witness of its existence.

 

Inspired was this project by the fantastic theory of the Big Bang, where apparently a pinhead-sized, incredibly hot bubble explodes in the void and creates in a hundredth of a second the whole universe with light, matter, space and time. Through experimentation and reinterpretation, in the series And Then There Was Light a new artistic reality is created by using photography as a producing medium. Observation fluctuates between the visible and the invisible, the existent and the imaginary, and takes us on a kind of inner journey in which memory, perception, and imagination mingle in our minds.

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