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Suspended Moment IV

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Oceanic Systems serie · by vonMoerenburgh

Suspended Moment IV

Original digital-to-physical · Aluminium panel, UV ink, crystal glass pigments, high-gloss automotive clear coat

$7,600

The path appears complete. The eye never arrives. A triangular corridor of reflected light pointing toward a sun on the horizon. The viewer becomes the figure. On aluminium panel the crystal glass pigments hold the gold longer than the actual evening did. De Zandmotor, the Sand Motor: a peninsula off the South Holland coast, built to dissolve. Twenty-one million cubic meters of sand deposited in 2011, designed to be redistributed along the coast by wind and tide over twenty years. IV holds that place. The sand is already moving.

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Details

Dimensions

100 × 100 × 2 cm

Weight

4 kg

Subject matter

De Zandmotor (the Sand Motor) at the Scheveningen coast, a triangular corridor of reflected light pointing toward a sun on the horizon

Medium

Aluminium panel, UV ink, crystal glass pigments, high-gloss automotive clear coat

Suited for

BedroomLiving roomRestaurant

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From the studio

“De Zandmotor. The Sand Motor. A peninsula the Netherlands built off the coast between Ter Heijde and Kijkduin in 2011: twenty-one million cubic meters of sand placed in one operation, then left for the wind and tide to spread along the coast over twenty years. It is the world's largest experiment in coastal protection by going with the sea rather than fighting it. I was standing on it one evening with the sun on the horizon. The reflected light on the water formed a triangular corridor pointing straight at the sun. The corridor was real. The peninsula was real. Both were also slowly disappearing into the coast they were built to protect. That is the work.”

vonMoerenburgh

Living with this work

The work reads differently at different times of day and from different viewing distances. From across the room the corridor and the sun are the entire composition. From close in, the geometric precision of the lines and the crystal glass pigments in the gold register become the subject. The sun never moves but the eye keeps returning to it. After weeks the work stops being a picture of a place and starts being a fact of the room: a direction the wall now contains. If the collector knows what the Sand Motor is, that knowledge does not fade. The work keeps holding the same proposition: the corridor reaches out, the eye does not arrive, the sand is moving anyway.

Where it lives

Room by room: where this work thrives, where it struggles, and exactly where to hang it.

Room fit

At 100x100 cm the work reads from across a room and rewards close inspection. The triangular corridor establishes a clear direction that anchors a wall without competing with surrounding furniture. Position at 145 cm to center on a white or pale neutral wall with at least two meters of clear viewing distance. Natural daylight gives the cleanest reading. Warm evening lamp light advances the sun and the corridor.

Strong fit

The reduced composition settles a bedroom rather than activating it. The corridor establishes a single direction the eye returns to. Position at 145 cm to center on a white or pale neutral wall. Morning light gives the cleanest reading of the corridor geometry. Warm evening lamp light advances the sun and the corridor.

Work size100 x 100 cm
Hang height (center)145 cm
Wall coverageFeature wall anchor
Ideal viewing distance1.5 - 2.5 m

About the artist

V

vonMoerenburgh

The Hague, The Netherlands

48,000 miles. Panama to New Zealand, Brazil to Hawaii. vonMoerenburgh was crossing the Pacific, then crossing it again, from a different angle. The ocean kept finding him. Eventually, he stopped leaving.

He came to art late. Thirty years in design, gaming, and publishing, then at 49, he started making art. The work is built on a digital foundation, finished by hand with crystal glass pigments that shift with the light. The same surface reads differently depending on where you stand and what the light is doing.

He always meant to go to art school. This is what happened instead.

www.vuvu.nl@joostvonm@vonmoerenburgh