If the world looked like it does in the Yet another… series, I would be completely overstrung. It is no representation of some sort of atypical way I see the world, nor a utopia. The truth is that my formerly constant amazement about the world I live in, starts to show irregularities. This challenges me to take on a more active stance in eliciting diversity in my realm of thought.
Travelling and searching for extremes in locations and ways of living, appear to be only short-term solutions to habituation and boredom. I tried to distance myself from and reconnect with the usual type of environments in which we (Duch/Europeans) spend most of our hours nowadays.
In order to do so, I generalized and simplified various environments, such as a meeting room, a bedroom, public transport, a terrace, etc. Not with the objective of understanding what basic elements they consist of, but to realize again how diverse and detailed our surroundings actually are.
In my attempt to vitalize my experience of our surroundings instead of turning indifferent to them, I decided to depict a single person from a bird’s eye view and reduce everything to suggestive lines and abundant colour planes.
The project is based on flirtation with the idea that our surroundings are as interesting as our thoughts about them, which is why the person is semi-transparent and his context shows right through him.
