Relatively Dimensional Still-life 1919 in 2017

Still life traditions in Dutch painting tend to center on certain motifs, one of them, the candlestick. I began to wonder what would a contemporary Dutch painting appear as in the future? Will the utopain ideal of dematerialised reality, extreme minimalism, permit physical objects at all, or will the movements we go through suggest our fires and candles be lit by screens? 1919 was amidst an important time for modernism, and 2017 marks a year of changes in the modern world as it was known. The images were made on a digital camera in 2014, of IKEA candlesticks and shelves, as these became the ubiquitous interior decor choice in much of the industrialised market, precisely as their Scandinavian minimalist arrangement poses one of the candles upright, and the other leaning toward the left. The candlesticks become what they are, and metaphors for the change in partnership roles. The images are converted to color spaces representing industrialised CMYK printing process, and layered over the other, to depict the way images layer and flow before our eyes on digital screens. The work