OF UNKNOWN TERRITORIES. VISIONS OF RED

My photo project VISIONS IN RED started with me seeing but not really looking at or thinking about the plants in my environment. Very often we are in a kind of auto-pilot mode, in which we are not particularly open but rather functioning. We are sticking to a certain 'dimension'. So, we have to consciously discover the magic in everyday life, learn to be amazed again. But what makes us mindful, i.e., aware of ourselves, and our perception? I avoid clues that help to make quick assumptions. By means of irritating visual stimuli I try to delay the viewer´s visual recognition and therewith challenge him to look more consciously at the object, and engage with the object. I took macro shots of objects from my living environment and colored them in the compliment color of GREEN - in RED. This explains part of my project title VISIONS IN RED. The term vision means appearance, revelation, dream, (optical) illusion, hallucination, something that does not exist.