The new landscape is a rearticulation of pieces of nature, pieces of man-made stuff and the friction that happens between these type of objects. And this brings different things on the surface, that not necessarily you can recognize the objects as a house or a train track. But it’s more the hybrid of how things come together and how the landscape responds to them. The development of the crust and the landscape, the models, the cutting, the folding, have learned me that a hybrid space is something that adapts. It changes when we look at the crust, because it’s the tectonic, it’s a movement. The hybrid is between the existing elements like the houses, the train tracks, the nature, the misery, the crust, that change after a movement.
The drawings present a new landscape composed of urban damage, demolished houses, trash, complexity and chaos, which came from the catastrophe in Wallonia during the month of July 2021. Can I create the new from the damaged old?
The first drawing is an impression of the collage. The hand takes the lead, the technique, the precision, the abstraction, and the connection between the lines create a new interpretation of the landscape. The figure(building) is placed on a broken landscape.
The elements resulting from the misery define a new space through the geometry. By observing the interaction between these different elements closely, I am able to draw the help lines that assist in getting an interaction between the figures and the landscape. The broken landscape is more and more developed into an imaged landscape consisting of trash and other elements. The second drawing forms the base layer for the final drawing. The misery is removed from the collage projected on the base layer. The landscape that started with misery and disaster transforms into a new natural landscape.
