velum
A dialectic sets the tone for the entire concept. Something visible results from the act of making something else invisible. Images are created out of obstructed images. The motif depicts something that has been concealed. Concealed also means protected: from temperatures; from the weather; from dust. Above all, that which is concealed is shielded from view. Things that are unfinished remain concealed until they are ready to be revealed. There is a certain kind of direction involved for the object and its visibility. The concealment itself is also an object with its own visibility. Measured against the visibility (or invisibility) which it addresses and works with to the limits of its possibilities,the visibility which it possesses is accidental, temporary and often poor and irrelevant. This captures a surprising and fascinating image narrative as well as some powerful poetry. The images are less about being and more about action. This is because – superficially – the concealment is nothing but a function. The idea behind velum makes this function the image itself and addresses the „beauty“ of chance and the provisional. In the image, action becomes a new form of being.
