Reds&Greens

Every day in the media and on the internet I see images, lots of images. I filter what I have seen and delete in my head as much as possible. I try to forget most of what I saw. Some images however keep coming back. I have no idea why. To be honest, I do not care.
The images that keep coming back offer a kind of starting point: a first hint for a possible project.

I liked the colors and textures of the ingredients I saw in our kitchen and at the market. The images of the paprikas and the cucumbers in particular were very bright red and bright green. I started to make pictures of them, got intrigued by the results, picked up more ingredients,
made more pictures and got more intrigued.

I liked the images of the colors and the textures I photographed. I forgot I was working with food. I felt like a painter, painting with natural colors of natural materials on large canvases.

The images presented here are each made of combinations of hundreds of exposures, resulting in large digital files that make printing large formats possible. Each image is named after its color and the number of pixels it has.