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The visual project that I intended to establish during the residency is based on an artistic interest in exploring ways of reflecting on the experiential and non-experiential relationship between a specific place, its multilayered nature and personal embodied ways of thinking.
It has been scientifically proven that daylight is different in different geographical locations. Different parts of the Earth’s surface are at different orientations toward the sun because of Earth’s spherical shape. The big effect of this is our seasons, but it could also affect the general light quality. Flemish light is a widespread concept. I am extremely fascinated by Flemish paintings, where moments of everyday life captured in small formats. But for me, the main character in these works is the timeless light that is captured. From this perspective, I perceive light, a physical phenomenon, symbolically as a place of action where mundane everyday life takes place. During the residency, I focused on visually reflecting on these ideas and doing an artistic research on local light and how I perceive it.
The attempts and possibilities to connect with a geographical place and to feel the layers of human and non-human reality create the conditions for the emergence of multi-layered works. Working at Nieuw & Meer led to an interdisciplinary series of works, but the basic aspects of the painting media - colour and light - remain in these works or their concepts. The creative process involved both intuitive research methods (tactile body interaction, intuitive walking, writing, drawing, taking photographs) and creative work with archival material, which is related to the research on links between the relationship between light and the multilayer environment.
