location – our baseline Joseph Beuys argued that the light in Holland lost its unique brightness as a result of land reclamation in the Zuyder Zee in the 1950s. The makers of Dutch Light established a baseline on the dike linking the villages of Marken and...
museum – Teylers Museum Teylers Museum was named after Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1702-1778), a prosperous cloth and silk merchant in Haarlem, and a sponsor of the arts and sciences at the time of the Enlightenment. Inspired by the belief that knowledge was the key...
location – the Zuyder Zee Aerial footage over the Zuyder Zee and vicinity Joseph Beuys described the Zuyder Zee as a vast mirror of light, the eye of Holland. Seeing is...
location – United States Dutch Light contrasts the arid atmosphere of the Painted Desert in Arizona with the humidity of Holland. We were given a unique opportunity to film in and around Roden Crater, the light observatory that the American artist James Turrell has...
location – France Following in Vincent van Gogh’s footsteps, we went to the South of France, to Provence, Arles, St Rémy and the Mediterranean to see whether the light there was any different from that in Holland. Vincent van Gogh wrote the following lines in a letter...
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