About Alomtegenwoordigheid

Alomtegenwoordigheid is a Dutch word that means to see from all sides at the same time. In architecture, it's used to describe the golden background tiles in Byzantine cathedrals. Something like air or light, or water if we were fish. That which surrounds us. It's my favourite word. In English I translate it to Surroud Sound Images.

Much of today's world is based on what a camera lens sees. We're shown what we should see. But sometimes it's about what we don't see: the things that are forgotten or lost or ignored. It's about being able to choose with what sort of eye you want to see.

The index page is organised as concepts: camera obscura (pinhole photographs of the angels in the cemetery near my house), sculpted images (inspired by Gaudi, deformed in three dimensions like sheets of metal), organic forms (mushrooms, peppers, nature's graphics), tennis (a sculpting paradigm inside time and space), architecture (pinhole views of Chicago), music (a poetic look at a place in time, lost) and vision (the eye).

The goal is to tie together these concepts, however far from each other they may seem to be. That's what alomtegenwoordigheid is to me. All of my interests link together because they are linked in me. But why are they linked in me? That is the puzzle I try to solve. To fill in the golden tiles.