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Suspended Moment VI

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Oceanic Systems serie · by vonMoerenburgh

Suspended Moment VI

Original on Hahnemühle paper · Hahnemühle fine art paper, crystal glass pigments, airbrush application

$900

The first morning on Maui is memorable. The fiftieth is accurate. VI is the fiftieth. The dawn arrives on schedule: turquoise above, coral pink at the transition, warm yellow where the sun is committing to the day. A wave breaks in the deep blue, the white curl held at the exact moment before it collapses. Two figures walk the promenade. Neither stops. They have seen it fifty times. Up close the pencil lines are still there under the colour. The work shows how it was found. The wave never finishes breaking. The collector who sees VI every morning for a year will know it the way vonMoerenburgh knew that dawn: not with surprise, with certainty.

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Details

Dimensions

40 × 20 × 1 cm

Weight

1 kg

Subject matter

Maui dawn before the Road to Hana: a wave caught mid-break in deep blue water, two figures walking the white promenade, sky from cool turquoise through coral pink to warm yellow at the horizon

Medium

Hahnemühle fine art paper, crystal glass pigments, airbrush application

Suited for

BedroomLiving room

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From the studio

“Two months on Maui. After the first week the dawns become familiar: the cool blue that holds until the pink arrives, the yellow at the horizon. The Road to Hana started early: up before the heat, before the traffic. The walkers were already out on the boulevard, the wave doing what it always does. VI is that morning. Not the memorable one. The certain one. The wave I saw fifty times, held at the point it never gets past.”

vonMoerenburgh

Living with this work

Close viewing reveals what distance does not. At 50 centimeters the airbrush build in the pink transition zone is visible: not a flat gradient but a layered one. Under the colour, the pencil sketch is still there: construction lines, the grid, the hand searching for the composition. The first look gives you the dawn. The second look, up close, gives you the making underneath it. The crystal glass pigments shift the warm yellow register across the day: soft in morning light, advancing under warm lamp light until the blue recedes. A collector who lives with VI across a full year will find it reads differently in January than in June.

Where it lives

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

Room fit

The cool-to-warm palette performs differently across the day. Morning natural light gives all three registers at once: the blue, the pink, and the yellow present simultaneously. By evening the warm yellow comes forward under lamp light and the cool blue recedes. Position at 145 cm to center on a white or neutral wall with close viewing distance of 50 to 100 cm. The paper format requires framing with UV-protective glass. Most effective in a room used in the mornings.

Strong fit

The strongest placement for VI: a bedroom used in the mornings gives the full version of the work, when the ambient light and the painted dawn are in the same register. Position at 145 cm to center on a white or neutral wall. Frame with UV-protective glass. The paper format suits close viewing of 50 to 100 cm where the crystal glass pigments in the soft pink transition zone reveal themselves.

Work size40 x 20 cm
Hang height (center)145 cm
Wall coverageMorning room anchor
Ideal viewing distance0.5 - 1.5 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