a form of fog / Coastline / 2021
Giclée print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper.
Size 30x20 cm without white border.
Anne-Meike van Willegen (1979) has a fascination for the sea. In the Coastline series, the horizon is central. On calm days the sea seems to perform a choreography. Slowly rolling waves, highlighted by the low sun, light and subdued. Sometimes the water is violent and threatening. Waves crash against the block dam. Vastness is a recurring theme. Usually the places are deserted and you are alone.
The photos show the same places, but the landscape is different with each visit. Because of the weather and the season. The clouds that pass and the light that puts other elements on a pedestal. The waves of the sea make waves on the beach. Sometimes these adjustments happen quickly, other times seemingly nothing changes. Slowly, never the same. The dunes also change shape. Vegetation grows, dies and grows again.
The earth beneath our feet is great. Her skin changes. Time after time. Through human intervention, through the natural elements. The horizon is consistently placed in the middle of the photos and, as it were, continues. Side by side, infinity becomes even more visible. We stand at the edge where earth and water meet, and are confronted with the relationships. The earth is great and infinite, man is small and finite. Face to face with our mortality, the horizon photographed again and again. Only the sea and the sky, the coast. Two surfaces that touch and interact. Always.
Anne-Meike van Willegen
The photo prints are printed in one batch every two weeks, at the beginning and middle of the month. You will receive an email when your order has been shipped or can be picked up.
a form of fog / Coastline / 2021
Giclée print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper.
Size 30x20 cm without white border.