Retrōspicere | The Sun and its Days
In Retrōspicere (meaning; 'to look back’) past imagery is taken from the An Irrational Element archive and curated into a visual novella as to reflect and conjure feelings, memories and thoughts.
The Sun and its Days is a memoir of sun-drenched days in rural Holland from late spring till mid summer 2019. It is a collage of moments spent wandering about the regional rivers, canals, meadows and towns. During this period I would equip myself with my Nikon F4S and hop on my Gazelle bicycle to either discover paths unknown to me or to do the exact opposite, which is revisiting places for the hundredth or even thousandth time. My tendency to revisit these places comes from the urge of retrospecting how a place and scene can be so at variance from day to day. With this in mind trailing the same route week-in, week out stays exciting. Most images were taken at sunset where the sun offered differentiating light to each end of a day. This sometimes softly reminds me, although cliché, of Heraclitus his ‘Doctrine of Flux’ where one can learn about the dynamic equilibrium of things that change such as a river, canal, meadow or town. Other than that this is just a visual story meant to warm the heart and offer tranquility just by taking that extra second looking at the images.
