
Thomas Elshuis (1961)
Cloud (from the series Travelogue) (2006)
photo, 40 x 60 cm
What distant journey are you reminded of?
Traveling far without taking a step outside the door is what Elshuis does. The collection of 20,000 slides he inherited from a deceased family friend is the starting point of his work. He chooses fragments, atmospheres and structures from the slides and combines them into new images. He leaves room for his own and our imagination to create new worlds. In this series, the soft images seem to refer to exotic lands. The dreamy atmosphere and translucent photographs are as diffuse as our own memories of distant travels.
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