Machina.

Visualising human reflections.

Machina is a series of private&public light art sculptures that show how light and shadows can generate effects. Just like the human thoughts are inspired by their given perspectives, light also forms and reforms due to objects and infiltrating parameters on different surfaces. The artworks play with the link between those parallel principles. The human brain has always been effected by external influences, and in today’s world we see a lot of “boosted” ways to penetrate into that thinking mechanism. Digital media, publicity, cookies or the neighbors talk all have a specific effect on how we formulate our ideas. In style, but also in the creation of our thoughts, mood and on a next level our physical body language. The artwork “Machina” wants to materialize that principle and literally exhibits the effects of other people’s positions on the individual. The works partially explore the source, the parameters of effect, the contours and the final projection of human contemplation and expression.

This series is inspired by the wonderful works of Alexander Calder.

Machina, The Tree. 2023 Private Collection, Belgium.

40 sculptural faces reflect and play in the wind, projecting towards each-other and the nearby architectural elements.

They form the group of closest friends and family of the collector’s partner, that just turned 40. It is a celebration of those wonderful years and a landmark for both the individual as well as the site, a former parish hall turned event space.

Sculptural elements.

The abstract steel structure holds clusters of faces moving in the light. Based on frontal headshots of 39 friends and family members, a digital line drawing has been created. These drawings are then laser cuttet out of mirror material and placed in the sculpture.