Tempus Fluit
(boy with melting ice - a photo about time)
Phnom
Penh 1993
80
x 120 cibachrome/dibond/perspex
euro 2500
currently at Shell, Amsterdam
see some more from the Shell exhibition
euro 2500
currently at Shell, Amsterdam
see some more from the Shell exhibition
I had been looking for some meaningful use (in a picture, I mean) of the ice delivery in the city for some days, as I saw these children with their blocks of ice lingering in the street. I had found them by following the trail of droplets on the street.
The sun had already gone down and the sky still had some color, but it would be dark in ten minutes.
And I decided to make him as translucent as his ice. It was a decision I took purely because of the rhyming of the forms as we say in dutch.
As I previsualized the effect of the flash, the rhyming of the meaning hit me: the melting away would be echoed by the vanishing of the boy; of youth.
There are moments like these that everything comes together. This is why you should try to use your tools as intuitively as you use a pencil.
I now see it as significant point in my work.
also
in the show at Shell:
- my fingers in der Körperteil im Zeitalter
seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit
- my hands in photo
ikebana
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more hands in punctum from the dreamtime
the glass cases
Profaner Schönheitsdienst (Tate Modern)