TOUCHED BY THE SEA
I used to live close to the sea. Now that I don’t, I still feel drawn to it. The Dutch Wadden Sea is the closest to my home. It is not exactly a “real ocean”, for it is just an intertidal zone, a shallow body of water with mudflats and wetlands. It is a landscape that is constantly changing before your eyes, maybe by a specific incidence of light or just the blowing of the wind. What fascinates me about this landscape is the natural process of change and the continuation of time, which are very visible here.
A few years ago, I began a photo series in the Wadden Sea area. Exposure times are long. Each image shows the present and, at the same time, the past.
All the images were taken with a pinhole camera and long exposure times.
Some images have an exposure time of only a minute and a half, while others span a whole week. In those pictures, you will see the path that the sun describes in the sky during a day. The lines sometimes break, revealing moments of cloud cover. Some other “sun paths” are made by moving the camera towards the sun after the exposure.
Through this white line, I aim to make passing time visible, connecting it to the unknown and a reality beyond our perception.
If you would like to learn more about this project, you can read my blog posts such as:
