The Figures are 'portraits' with images depicted from outside
which create and form the innerworld. By rendering man as
a Figure 'filled in' with images depicted from their surroundings,
'portraits' appear in which the essential and personal characteristics
are reduced to _expression and outward characteristics like
a silhouette or shadow. A more complete image from identity
can be seen from the images with which they are 'filled'.
These images come from the figure's surroundings, images such
as landscapes, still-lifes, and cityscapes; the images from
the outer world reflecting the innerworld, the identity.
Peter Heij, June 2003
Gestalten Figures I
2000 / Oil / 60 x 80 cm
Marathonlopers 1
2005 / Oil / 30 x 40 cm
Reclining Amsterdam
2003 / Oil / 100 x 40 cm
Lost Lands, a series of landscapes, 2003/4
This is a series of landscapes with lost land as the subject.
These works refer to primal land, the bygone earth, the early
world which has, in reality, nearly disappeared. But our former
surroundings were a part of this ancient world that remains
deep in our collective, primal subconscious. We seem to recognize
and grasp this knowledge of our connection with our origins
instinctively, although they remain faded and almost forgotten
memories.
I want, with this series, to recall those subconscious memories,
to bring this lost land back, reconstruct it.
The sunset in a burning sky in each of these works asserts
the awareness of and dramatizes the passage of time.
Gestalten Figures III
Marathonlopers 1
Lost Land VIII
Lost Land XVI
Lost Land XVIII