Title: A wave cannot dream of becoming the ocean, the wave is the ocean.
200cm x 150cm.
Highly pigmented Acrylics, pigments, softpastels on canvas.

The investment for acquiring this unique piece of expression in your home is € 4900,00 incl vat. Please contact me at info@ankdaamen.com for live viewing and/or shipping info.

I will add a patch of resonating thoughts by Bayo Akomolafe, its a detail from interview by Forresta Collective/ on relational space with Bayo Akomolafe🙏🌱; “[..] I think that the world, especially where we are today, within modern city’s and modern experiments, building home settlements and trying to colonise the future, and trying to use technology to sure up our space in the universe. I think as we do that we are coming to meet the costs of doing so. Like the world subsidises our existence. Most of the things that we do, that we claim as exclusively human has always been post-human. Has always been gifts, the support, the conditionality; the fact that we are not alone. We are not separate from ecology. (..) a wave cannot dream of becoming the ocean; the wave is the ocean (..)

The way that I think about it in some kind of cartegraphical project. As an invitation to lose our way. So loosing once way is very very vital as a metaphor. The figure that i am drawn to is the idea of straying away from a pattern. And I feel that is where we meet the new. That is where we might meet the new. That is where we might have encounters. The thing that i describe as post-activism for instance. Its not about solutions, not centraly about solutions, not centraly about utopia, not centraly about the sacred or the spiritual as some kind of platonian concept – removed from the everyday. The post-activism for me is the opportunity that presents itself for us to speak differently. To see differently. Opportunity meaning the world creates it with us. We don’t manifest it based upon our genius, or our blue-print. The world stretches… There is a topographical shift, and somewhere in there is a crack. And that crack or faultline affords us an opportunity to meet the world in different ways. And to become different ourselves.[…]”