”Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since nobody was listening, everything must be said again”
— André Gide
about: Surreal cinemagraphs (moving photos) of The Hague. Magritte meditations is my personal photographic response to the work of the surrealist painter, René Magritte (Belgian 1898-1967). When I began the Magritte series, my plan was to base each work on a specific painting. I started recreating the following works in black and white: “ The Castle of the Pyrenees” into “The Castle of Peace” and “The Looking glass” into “The Looking Gaze”.
Work in progress
some sketches and details of work in progress/ sketchbook
My digital composites are build in Photoshop and After Affects. The photos and films of the sea and the Peace Castle I shot in The Hague and the rock + window I staged in my studio. As the series progressed, I started to continue in color and used 3D modeling software to recreate the work “The Mental Gaze” . In this series I used different colours and atmospheres to simulate different time frames, seasons and moods. Right now I feel more freedom to create my own compositions inspired by the vision of Magritte, but not less based on specific works.