From darkness to light. During a period of isolation, ideas had time to ferment, obsessions were given free rein. The studio as an impossible journey or as a window on the absent. For three months, the space functions as a darkroom for unfinished visual thoughts. After this period of darkness, the studio opens its doors to let in light. As is the case with the cyanotype, we trust that this light will develop the ideas and sketches and transform them into something different. 

The blue acts as a force that draws you into an opaque universe. Our own blue period consists of rough ideas, not a single one of which has been developed. By fragmenting the incomprehensible entirety of the sky, for example, the images seek out complexity in the (apparently) simple. They attempt to comprehend the endlessly complex in spite of it all. Some works take a second step. They take us to somewhere else. They do this by fragmenting, disorienting, setting something in motion, or making a difference. 

“The techniques used are complex too. They demand – just like our circus work – a painstaking preparation and an extensive study of materials. These techniques lead to blue studies that alternate between matter-of-fact photography and self-proclaimed turbokitsch. There are ink drawings that use home-made ink, but also monotypes and cyanotypes”