The painting is connected to the remote polders where the artist lives, but they are not traditional landscapes, nor are they impressions or snapshots. The polders surround, protect, and provide calm and concentration; day in, day out, the wind and clouds change, mist obscures, rain showers pass over, rising or descending darkness compresses the light in the evening, dew appears. None of this can be controlled by humans, but the human mind naturally sees patterns in what seems to happen randomly: pareidolia. Looking at the man in the moon with the bundle on his back, or at NASA photos of the Horsehead Nebula or the Pillars of Creation, these are familiar forms of seeing pareidolia.