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  Anonymous

  with this one ..... I'm not quite sure yet ..... I have to let it mature .....

  • over 2 years ago
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  rob kaptein

  understand, i'll have some more experimental shots, have seen them once, I also have to mature them and see what wil stand out.

  • over 2 years ago
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  rob kaptein

  sometimes M., I find the rules of geomantic like golden ratio, let's stay with photography, not always interesting to simply follow and answer. I like also the situations in which it's like feeling nearing that situation.. In-between the "pure' tunes, there are lots of microtunes, for example in Indian music you'll hear them. Different scales in music are possible. Having to keep to the same rules over and over in order to arrive at a 'satisfactory composition' is also a bit boring to me, so it's not always logical to follow them. I (also) like situations in which people/a situation/composition 'search' for where it will go. I find a painting by Paul Klee " es ringt noch" interesting. That is why I think that the viewer more often cannot fully place, embrace, or perhaps misunderstand the rather 'restless' situations/compositions still looking for balance.. in my work. I want to be able to play with the rules, challenge them. But then I can also 'sit next to it' more often myself. I want to be able to play with suggestion, composition, rhythm, order, and possible meaning(s) which I also like to leave open to let the viewer feel and think and find.

  • over 2 years ago
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  rob kaptein

  sometimes situations in which I have to look more often again and again, to know and find out what I think (or judge) than simply label it in just one-dimensional 1 of the 2: good or wrong, like or dislike, sometimes, I like these situations of not really knowing even more than immediately 'hits'.. What is in us to always want to be satisfied and behave in like-dislike-ignore ?

  • over 2 years ago
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  Anonymous

  Good Rob! I just discovered your beautiful "essay" by chance when I looked at your latest pictures again. I find this approach of a mature but still searching artist quite wonderful and I think you also manage to really challenge and break the established rules of composition when it still feels goodI would like to philosophise about this with you personally, so I'm holding back my thoughts now. In any case, your intellectual outpourings are always very refreshing for all of us to enjoy

  • over 2 years ago

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