53,7474 N 7,4926 E – Seaweed embedded on the beach of a North Sea island after a heavy storm. Uprooted from the ocean, washed onto the shore, dried in the sun, largely covered by sand, transformed into calligraphy.
Same view, different day. Same sky, different mood. Same ocean, different fragrance. Same silence, different sound. Same universe, different consciousness.
66 poems reflect a fearless journey to unconditional love, held within a deeply felt connection between the longing self and a nearly mythical figure: Lo.
Lo appears as projection, revelation, beloved, force of nature, and metaphysical center—at times ethereal and distant, at times tender and unfathomable. Her being oscillates between light and ice, voice and silence, presence and absence.
At the heart is a transcendent closeness where perception, language, science, and dream blend into one. The space is not geographical but cosmological: moons, planets, light phenomena, currents, quantum states, and elemental forces become metaphors for inner states. Poetry and physics interweave into subtle oscillations—time stretches, matter liquefies, essence pulses.
What remains is a physics of love, full of devotion, uncertainty, and metaphysical sensitivity. At the center stands one motif: the longing for the Other as a mirror of one’s existence, and the awareness of the ungraspability of this wonder. In Lo, the universe condenses—and precisely because she is everything, she cannot be held. This paradox is the luminous beauty of a poetic world.
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In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi (侘寂) is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is described as one of beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
A collection of images and stories which came together as a different take on Cape Town, blurring the boundaries between urban topographics, social documentary, personal diary and conceptual art. This project was born over a far off ocean, it is a collaboration between Rike Michaelsen, Andrea Mönch and Hetty Zantman.
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