During the lockdown (I am living in Spain) I re-activated my project Sun-Penetrations. I was going through my huge collection of archived Sun-Penetrations. My daily regime was to send everyday 1 into the Online world. This I did for 40 days.


QUARANTINE: 40 days—Isolation
Quaranta Giorni (forty days) is a medical term that comes from the plague epidemic in the 14th century. During this time, all ships were to remain in the port for 40 days, and the crew was not allowed to leave the ship. This to reduce the spread of infection.
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) is something that we haven’t experienced yet in our lives. Many of us are confined to our homes. For 40 days I sent every day a reminder of our shared isolation in the form of a photograph of my ongoing series: Sun-Penetration. With the sun as the bringer of life. And giving light in a moment of darkness.
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Ongoing series: // Sun-Penetrations //
Sun-Penetrations shows photographs and 1-minute videos of beams of the sun, which penetrate externally into the inner space, through windows, curtains, doors, burned glass, holes or cracks. 
 
Without the sun life on earth would perish within ten minutes. By visiting us the sun brings life. Sun-Penetrations show me that I am not truly living. To me there is an emotion of loneliness by experiencing them. In the responsiveness to this there lies a contrasting visual beauty.

The sun finds its way to penetrate our inner space from the sun to the earth at a mesmerizing speed of fewer than ten minutes. When we see it with our eyes and feel the warmth of the sun on our bodies it is between ten thousand and fifty million years. Whatever situation we are in or being faced with, this powerful source will always be there to shine a light on us—to let us know there is life.





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Quarantine: 40 days—Isolation