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Atlas of Places

Chiaroscuro I

2020

This project has been inspired by Nicolas K Feldmeyer’s series ‘Even After All’.

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From Rembrandt I’ve learned how little light there is in man. The Rembrandtesque portrait exhausts all its light resources; there is no more light in it. Light itself seems to be the interior refraction of a light that dies somewhere, far away. Rembrandt’s chiaroscuro doesn’t derive from bringing clarity and darkness in close proximity but from the illusion of light and from the infinity of the shadow. From Rembrandt I’ve learned that the world is born out of the shadow…

Chiaroscuro I
Mount Saint Helens - Chiaroscuro I
Chiaroscuro I
Mount Saint Helens - Chiaroscuro II
Chiaroscuro I
Mount Saint Helens - Chiaroscuro III
Chiaroscuro I
Mount Saint Helens - Chiaroscuro IV
Chiaroscuro I
Mount Saint Helens - Chiaroscuro V
Chiaroscuro I
Mount Saint Helens - Chiaroscuro VI
Chiaroscuro I
Mount Rainier - Chiaroscuro VII
47°30'00.0"N 120°30'00.0"W

Location: Washington, USA

Data: LIDAR Point Cloud
Text: Emil Cioran, The Book of Delusions, 1935


Posted: February 2020
Category: Research