ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Resonance #20160625 Amaliastraat, Amsterdam. The poppy flower shines splendorous for a day and then dies out within a night. The wrinkled leafs are luminous, brittle and delicate while appearing to breathe light.

“Nothing exists that does not affect something else” – Jeroen Brouwer -
For a split second, light illuminates the brilliance of the ordinary existence of things; it exalts and then vanishes within an instant.

My fascination with light and luminance finds its expression in this series of images called Resonance. Using light in each frame, I try to aim, unravel, form, transform and distort its qualities within all layers until each image possesses a palpable intimacy for the viewer to make their own.

AUTHOR
Biography Mo Verlaan
After graduating from the Rietvelt Art Academy, Mo Verlaan (1963) started out in experimental theatre, creating sets on location as well as performing. Her love for travelling made her accept an offer to provide meals for the performance group The Female Factory as their touring schedule included Moscow. Afterwards Mo and two of her sisters founded the catering company ‘De Drie Gezusters’ (The Three Sisters) catering to national and international film and television crews, providing three-course meals on location from a converted truck. This took her all over the Netherlands, to France, Germany, Spain, Bulgaria, and even to the remote Spitsbergen Islands.
Only 7 years ago, Mo’s love for photography made her enter the Photo Academy in Amsterdam. She graduated in 2016 with a joint exhibition Unframed in the creative haven Roest and designed a steel triptych presenting four black and white prints especially for the location. At the same time she launched her first photography book called ‘Resonance’ in which she explores the impermanence of light, the brief and fleeting beauty of landscapes, architecture and people. Her work is poetic, abstract and expressive. Mo Verlaan lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, but will journey everywhere.

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