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"... 2 20 2 2 20 2 2 20 2 2 20 2 2 ... (perspectively)"
or "... to twenty two to twenty two to twenty two to ... (repeatedly)".
Painting for the Summer Expo in De Kring where the centenary is celebrated.
Oil (Old-Holland) on canvas (linen), 50x60cm.
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What do you see?
"... 2 20 2 2 20 2 2 20 2 2 20 2 2 ... (perspectively)"
should be pronounced as "... to twenty two to twenty two to twenty two to ... ".
It's not a binary question whether we are alive or not.
This year 22 is the center point of all the 22s that were and will be. Its reach as the center point of the past and the next hundred years goes on infinitely.
Many art movements have past in the last century. When De Kring started, Art Deco came up. Few will follow if you believe in movements and it goes to neural for sure. But there is so much more before and beyond that.
What are the perspectives. And is there a difference between the drawn lines on a canvas or the time lines. Perspectively you can put time and place in one fantasy. We put time and place on a - yellow brick - road.
Like Hobbema did in 1689 in a revolutionary way. And he came on my path since I was raised in the neighbourhood of the Steneweg in Middelharnis, which is the still existing "The Avenue At Middelharnis" ("Laantje van Middelharnis")(find it on Wikipedia or look here at the National Gallery in London). They say the landscape is not recognisable anymore, but for me it is.
There is a mystery about this painting and it concerns place and time. Said it is painted in 1689, it cannot be painted in that year (you can read that online). Was Meindert Hobbema a time traveler? I don't think it is that easy. But at least somebody had a fantasy.
The church on the left is the church as it is nowadays and not as Hobbema painted it. The church where I'm baptized in 1968 (1689? 1968?) under the strict rules of the Dutch Reformed Church. Without the copper pear on the church tower. The French needed the metal; they also removed the copper apple from the church tower that is on exactly 1,000 meters distance in Sommelsdijk. Why 1,000 meters? Perspective can be fun.
Another big influence on me, for many years, comes from Salvador Dalí. You can see "Lincoln in Dalívision" in this painting and I tend to put surrealistic elements in my work. Dalí is know for his concept of the melting watches - saying about "The Persistance of Time" the clocks are a surrealisitc sensation of melting camembert in the sun and is not inspired by the theory of relativity. Perspective is fun.
We're in a box, alive or not as depicted by the nuclear symbol and Schrödinger's cat. Were we alive, will we be alive. In our world, blood flows. Scan the QR code. But it's not important... as the see through reflects it: we go to neural, everything is connected, imagine it blossoms. And the white rose is what I dream about.
(This is a preliminary text)
