Koen de Vries
Gevonden gezichten

A head in a crash helmet on an undefined lump of matter. It took a while for this image to sink in. Again, life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans. The image seems to be a summary of the position of man on earth: becoming conscious in space on a lump of matter. Is it a slow awakening or will it remain a dream?

A head in a crash helmet on an undefined lump of matter. It took a while for this image to sink in. Again, life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans. The image seems to be a summary of the position of man on earth: becoming conscious in space on a lump of matter. Is it a slow awakening or will it remain a dream?

With this sculpture group I wanted to show the dominant behaviour of leaders who shake hands at a summit meeting. Basically a ‘gaze down’, monkey behaviour, because only one can be the leader… 

As often happens during the process, my starting point changed when I separated the two images from each other. I saw that no matter how I put them down, they just kept communicating with each other and with no one else. Their own bubble that is maintained even at a great distance. Beautiful this human interaction, did you know what that looks like?