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Photograph: Paul Cupido
Collection: Van Lanschot
Double exposure monochrome, flat gold eco print on 320 g/m2 matte black paper. Signed & numbered.
Beauty in the Obscure
How can I find beauty and let it endure? Can a work still be growing even when it’s finished? How can something that needs growth, light, and attention ever be finished?
There is beauty when someone looks at you, perceives you. In this photograph I want to show that beauty is always there. The flower is repeated multiple times, like a shadow of itself: pale, as a pallid memory of what she had been, an echo from the past. But also as beauty that suddenly flowers in full bloom, after light has gotten to the germ. Sometimes the darkness seems all-embracing, but the search for light is carried by the invincibility of hope.
Beauty often springs from the deepest darkness within our selves, but it needs guidance from time to time to reveal itself.
From heaviness to lightness.
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