Graffiti, elephant paths, posters and laughing gas ampoules lying around: they are all traces and signs of human presence in the public space that are an important source of inspiration for Kaspar Dejong. He documents them on his wanderings through the city, as well as places affected by time: walls with worn paint, cracks in the road surface, greenery proliferating between tiles. They often form unintentional compositions, 'street still lifes', which Dejong (1995) transforms into sculptures, paintings and installations in his studio. In doing so, he is interested, among other things, in the different layers embedded in the image. They remind him of a palimpsest, a reused piece of parchment on which remnants of previous use are sometimes still visible. The same applies to walls in the city that are 'tagged' with graffiti and then cleaned again, adding new traces. Dejong: "Ultimately, a dialogue is created in the public space and a new composition on the wall."
Dejong's work forms an invitation to look; not only at what is and was but also at the new constellation in which Dejong brings it together, showing the power and unsuspected beauty of the everyday.