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Different states of a process

I often work across multiple projects with overlapping themes, which stem from the use of various media such as drawing, painting, photography, and film. These media serve as tools to travel from one space to another — be it a place, memory, image, or object. Each medium or approach requires a specific method, inherent to its nature, and offers different perspectives on my subject, both literally and figuratively.


These different approaches can be compared to the way one might approach a lake:

 

you can observe it from the shore,

view your reflection from above,

experience it by going in,

or intervene by throwing a stone.

 

Each action reveals a different aspect of the lake (contemplation, reflection, experience, manipulation), just as each method uncovers various facets of the themes I work with.


My work often emerges on location — in public spaces, remote cottages, urban environments, the countryside, or during my travels — and I then further develop these images in my studio. I see my creative process as a visual diary, engaging in a dialogue with my surroundings. During this process, I intuitively connect different places and experiences, causing memories, situations, and locations to become intertwined in the visual process, which I then rediscover and transform into new, personal images and memories.

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Catagorize
  make,
  think,
  read,
  do,
  watch 
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Catalyst
Practice
Write
Juxtapose
Read

pratice,

 

                                experiment,                               

 

        collaborate,

 

 

exhibit, 

 

              write, look, see, reflect, 

 

                                          make,

 

      think,

             read,

                     do,

                           watch,     

 

                                                   act

play, 

look, watch, see

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I am currently a guest artist at residency GinDS (https://ginds.org/) from April to July 2026:

On April 1, I began a residency at GinDS, located in a former bunker. Here, I continue The Familiar, an artistic investigation into how the sense of “home” emerges and shifts. I depart from the idea of the familiar: that which seems known, but can never be fully fixed, and becomes tangible precisely through its shifts, and at times, its turning points.

The first chapter of The Familiar developed through a collective process with children. Through conversations, drawings, and shared constructions, we explored what “home” can be: a place, a memory, a language, or a group of people. When one of the children suddenly moved away, his absence became immediately perceptible. What was missing began to shape what remained, and emptiness functioned as a kind of shadow against which everything else took on form.

In this second chapter, I work in isolation. The bunker does not function as a backdrop, but as a research instrument: a space in which absence is already embedded in the material itself, and where the unknown takes precedence over the familiar. Time slows down, withdraws, and at times seems to come to a standstill. The absence of daylight and the enclosed structure demand a different mode of perception, in which presence reveals itself precisely through what is missing.

In this context, I explore how a place gradually becomes one’s own through being there, remaining, and looking.

This research is supported by the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts).

© 2024 by David Wasch. All rights reserved.

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