“Since end 2019
I have spend most of the time in and around the house.
This book is part of that.
UMWELT
The world as it is experienced by a particular organism. (An umwelt (plural: umwelten; from the German umwelt meaning “environment” or “surroundings”) is the specific way organisms of a particular species experience the world, which is dependent on what their sensory organs and perceptual systems can detect and interpret.)So on my morning walk I can hear two men gossip about Anja while Felipe the dog smells me from afar and comes running to say “hello” because we became friends; while another dog, Dunya, smells Filipe on me and starts barking every morning we find ourselves in Rembrandt Park at the same time.
The works are all made between 2019.07.16 and 2024.10.14.
I seed in the park, photograph the flowers end of summer, harvest seeds, photograph seeds and then plant them and then harvest the flowers, photograph, dry, repeat.
There is a storm in the park. Trees fall and get cut in pieces. I move them, build a fire, invite friends and build toasties. On the next walk I move the pieces again and then photograph. And repeat when it snows.
Patrice decides to leave me plants and throw notes in my mail box.
I see something beautiful in the park,
I run home to get my camera.
I make wrapping paper mono prints and then photograph.
I document the drying of my yearly garlic harvest compositions.
Flags for graduation across the street,... photograph.
And sometimes when I see one of my neighbors or my mother in front of my door and all the elements are in place I make a portrait.
All this
In and around the house
is this book
is Umwelt.”
A collection of photographs documenting the artist’s close surroundings in the Rembrandtpark area, this includes portraits of neighbours, the park in various seasons, personal notes and small details, as well as arrangements of freshly harvested garlic, both b/w and full-colour reproductions as well a loose photograph insert.
Soft cover, 24 x 17 cm, 80 not numbered pages, 1st ed/150, n.p. 2024
ISBN: 978-956-6338-08-6
