Cecilia: As you notice there’s a difference between the colored pieces and the more ‘rough’ metal pieces: the even versus the rough, the perfection versus the imperfection, etc. In the first paragraph of our conversation you said: ‘there’s nature in your pieces’, and yes, the landscape obviously is my main resource: sometimes I like the rough and the unspoilt landscape, other times I love the industrial landscape. I think this leads directly to the surface treatment and the finishing of the metal plates. The purity of the metal plates have their very own beauty, each piece is unique and has its very own quality. In contrast the anodized works go through several processes to obtain their specific color and I prefer to make these works in series. The use and presentation of industrial and plainspoken materials is very much related to minimal art, which I highly admire especially for its directness and force: no need for bells and whistles. It’s certainly the pureness and directness that I’m looking for.
For me ‘extreme abstraction’ is a way to separate the fibers and threads of life. Just a simple intervention or a minor shift can cause a change of view. Like the wind slightly changing direction or blowing a bit harder, things change… first one wave, then another, and then… the whole ocean is in motion.
Read more: The Wind Makes the Waves – Cecilia Vissers Brent Hallard Visual Discrepancies http://brenthallard.wordpress.com/http://brenthallard.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/the-wind-makes-the-waves-cecilia-vissers/http://brenthallard.wordpress.com/shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1
Visual Discrepancies + Cecilia Vissers The Wind Makes the Waves
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