Niels what, how, why

"On the shore of the galaxy"; ten books, a photograph and sheet music. The books contain images of myself holding fruit, and images of celestial bodies. The sheet music depicts three singers being silent for an undetermined amount of time. On the photograph you can see myself holding a planet.

The images of celestial bodies were scanned from a scientific book. The pictures where made with a Nikon D100 camera mounted on a tripod with a single strobe light. The sheet music was made with special software, printed and framed. I took the picture in which I was holding a melon, and used photoshop to insert a planet. The sizes differ from twenty by twenty to forty by sixty centimeters.

Silence is an abundance of something. Instead of three singers being silent, I want people to imagine silence. For me, the galaxy is a silent being. I see a clear simularity between fruit and the stars, comets and planets. Holding fruit is like holding a quiet universe.

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A digital print, thirty by sixty centimeters in size, titled “the Mountain and I”. You can see my head next to a miniature mountain. In the background you can see my previous studio. There is a clear border between the green colours of the mountain, and the whites of the miniature.

This picture was shot with the self-timer of a Canon handheld camera, which was mounted on a tripod. I used photoshop to crop the image, and to give the foreground more contrast than the background. I made the miniature with styrofoam, pulp and acrylic paint.

The mountain was oraiginally intended as a sculpture. It stood untouched in my studio for months. With a hammer I hit a hole in it, and stuck my head through. My face is expressionless, just like the mountain. After months the inanimate mountain became my acquaintance.

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This video has no title yet. It is about three minutes in lenght. There are three things to be seen: my hand, a lightbulb and a black background. The lightbulb spins, and floats from one side of the screen to the other. My indexfinger follows the lightbulbs path. You can hear two clicking noises, like the last few jumps of a bouncing ball.

First I filmed a lightbulb hanging on a string, then my hand pointing from left to right. Both were filmed in front of a greenscreen. I recorded the sound of ping-pong balls and snooker balls. All of this was edited in After Effects and Premiere Pro.

The movements of the hand and lightbulb can go on forever, there is no starting or stopping point. This resembles a clock, or a pendulum. The sound of the snooker and ping-pong balls intensify this resemblence. I am still looking for a title that would fit this endless feeling.