Waterfall
Waterfall is a series of double layered silkscreen prints. The first layer is a silver background and on top is the image in black ink. I embrace the small flaws that can occur in the image, for me it becomes part of it and enhances the image.
In “Zen Mind, Beginners Mind” Shunryu Suzuki compares life (or consciousness) to a waterfall. When the water is a river, it is complete, it is one. When the water falls from the mountain it is separated by the wind and rocks into drops of water. Suzuki says that our life is like a drop of water, no longer one but separated from the whole. Before we were born we had no feeling; we were one with the universe, which he calls “essence of mind”, afterwards we are separated by birth from this oneness and when we die, we become one again.
This analogy sounds very spiritual but when we think about the universe and the big bang theory, we could say this is similar. There is oneness, energy, all bundled together. This energy separates and forms new things, energy changes into matter and changes back into energy in a kind of dance... And in the end (the big crunch) it all comes together again, to be one again.
This series is a final chapter on the subject of time. Water forms caves very slowly over time in a process that is barely perceivable in a single lifespan. Water itself, however, is constantly changing. In the end, everything changes. In this ever-changing process, the duration is not important, only the fact that it exists is.