Flight

features two dynamic, bird-like forms composed of paper fragments. The pieces burst outward from central circular cores, with layered strips creating feathered extensions that suggest movement and dispersal. The forms face each other across the white wall, their fragments scattering between them in a moment of encounter.

Drawing inspiration from Fra Angelico's Annunciation at St. Marco monastery in Florence, the work explores multiple dimensions of "flight"—physical soaring, spiritual ascent, but also flight as fleeing, as an escape. Constructed from the ephemeral matter, these bird-like messengers embody both presence and disappearance. Where angels once brought reassurance and divine presence, these forms are caught mid-dissolution—neither fully arriving nor departing, but fragmenting, scattering, leaving only traces. The paper strips, already fading, suggest shapes fleeing from the spaces they once occupied, marking an absence where certainty and spiritual consolation used to be. Like messages that dissolve before they can be fully read, these vanishing forms speak to the loss of those guiding presences, leaving only the ephemeral remnants of something that has already taken flight.

Installation view from Fragments, Kunstfabrik HB55, December 2024

photo: Tim van den Oudenhoven