There are various ways to create the illusion of space and depth on a flat surface. Light-dark contrast, atmospheric perspective, large-small, foreground-background, overlapping, cropping, placing higher, the diagonal and the central perspective, ………
These are visual elements that can be applied within the framework of a single painting. Everything is present within that one framework at the same time. Like a frozen moment. You can, as it were, survey the image plane at a glance. There is a kind of unity of space and time.
Dave Meijer has literally taken that unity of space and time apart by creating a diptych in which a single image is shown. Two of the same image, but not within one and the same plane, but within two separate frames. A large and a small version, allowing you to experience it up close and from further away. It has something cinematic about it. However minimal and simple it may be.
Almost every painting by Meijer is a fragment of a larger whole. His images also have everything to do with the search for order, composition and structure in the (visible) outside world. In his black windowless studio, he still looks outside. Hence the black frame around the work.