These images of various rivers, showing the surfaces and reflections of water as well
as parts of the riverbanks, elongated and distinctly cropped, are accompanied by
their titles, clippings from book IV of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura.
In this specific book the Roman author Lucretius writes in verse about the formation
of images, the process of perception and the senses in general.
Contemplating the rivers you begin to feel an uncertainty about perspective and
orientation, which creates an associative space expanding into the context
of the viewers' encounter with these works.
Thus here it is not just a photographic illusion pulling you into the depth of an image,
but breathing of a painterly suspense.
In particular this is rendered by, next to the colouring, the vagueness regarding the
works' spatial concepts: Proximity, distance and the volumes expanding forward or
backward become ambivalent, pretty much as the point of view and the vertical
orientation do. In particular, these ambiguities result from a rotated optical axis,
mostly of 180 degrees, which is not that apparent at first glance, but creates
a peculiar impact for certain.
Moreover the distinct clipping, shaping stretched horizontal formats and
releasing the motif from its local and spatial context, kind of renders the image
floating and provides it with a certain, quite welcome, indeterminacy.