CAGE: four interlocked Penrose frames forming a floating cubic lattice in blue tones; light–shadow contrast, optical paradox. Fine art print on Hahnemühle, Alu-Dibond, direct sale online
CAGE: four interlocked Penrose frames forming a floating cubic lattice in blue tones; light–shadow contrast, optical paradox. Fine art print on Hahnemühle, Alu-Dibond, direct sale online

CAGE

The art­work “CAGE” assem­bles four inter­lock­ing Pen­rose frames into a seem­ing­ly spa­tial struc­ture ren­dered in cool blues. Like a cubic lat­tice, it hovers, cast­ing shad­ows while resist­ing any coher­ent per­spec­tive: inside and out­side, sup­port and void, weight and lev­i­ta­tion col­lapse into one. The opti­cal para­dox becomes a metaphor for a cage made of per­cep­tion, rig­or­ous­ly con­struct­ed yet per­me­able. “CAGE” weaves pre­ci­sion, illu­sion, and quiet ten­sion into a single sus­pend­ed form. “CAGE” is an art­work from the “Blue in a Square” art series with over 300 works. Each piece is avail­able exclu­sive­ly through the art shop and can be pur­chased online via direct sales.

Pris­on­ers of our learned behaviour.

Fun­da­men­tal­ly, we per­ceive and see our­selves as indi­vid­u­als. Like a soli­tary tree in a wide meadow. I used to assume that I could devel­op and unfold freely in all direc­tions. Like a mighty oak in a park. Stand­ing there all on its own. But over the course of my life, it became increas­ing­ly clear to me that this is not the case. I am what people tell me I am. And I am what I have learned in order to exist in my surroundings.

So I believe that, per­son­al­ly, we increas­ing­ly step into the very cage that life builds for us. Inter­est­ing­ly, we feel safe and pro­tect­ed inside this cage. We give up free­doms in exchange for a feel­ing of secu­ri­ty. It takes a life­time to free your­self from this cage. Maybe you never get rid of it com­plete­ly. But you can create more and more moments in which you move out­side of it.

I am con­vinced that the clear­er you become about your own thoughts and your own behav­iour – and where they come from, the more you can free your­self from your own mental cage. The art­work “Cage” refers to this con­di­tion. An open cage in every direc­tion, in which you are trapped by your thoughts and your pat­terns of think­ing. Even though you could, in prin­ci­ple, think in all directions.

The art­work “Cage” is part of an art series of more than 300 works that revolves around the theme of “pos­i­tive memory cul­ture”. Is the cage pos­i­tive? Hardly. But real­is­ing that, in fact, it is open in all direc­tions – and call­ing that to mind again and again, is the pos­i­tive impulse. I am not trapped in my mental cage. I can think in all direc­tions – and then act accordingly.

Canon Fine-Art inkjet print on pre­mi­um Hah­nemüh­le Photo Rag 308 gsm paper. Art­work size freely selec­table: from at least 20 × 20 cm up to 120 × 120 cm. Mount­ed on 2 mm alu­minum Dibond with a white wooden shadow-gap frame. Pricing/quote on request, depend­ing on size and quantity.

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