Logbook entry

Rough Sea Blue and Red 2x 100x100cm

Curling white ripples on top and the sun seems to pierce deep into the darker layers of the ocean. The logbook represents an effort to maintain and anchor order in the uncertainty of the seemingly infinite space between sea and sky. The changing waves and colors are tools to guide the voyage, but they also affect the viewer’s mind and offer an opportunity for introspection.

The root for the old Germanic word rust is the Indo-European word red (red color, red earth); the oxidized layer of iron is therefore named after its reddish color. Whether in anthropology,  the scientific study of humanity,  or in astrophysics,  the  study of the physical nature of the cosmos: RED is closely associated with excitement, expansion and the primordial past; the color BLUE with calm, closeness and return.