Arie Fransen | Fine artist
Knowledge is control. As a person, I’ve always had the urge to understand everyone and everything. Even when I was young I would constantly ask questions trying to grasp the things I couldn’t understand. When unable to understand someone or something it would upset me. Which, now as an artist, results in works on subjects of which I wish to gain a deeper understanding.
My work started out focusing on mental health. Looking back at that time I believe that I had trouble understanding my own thoughts, coping with depression, and social anxiety. Researching and analyzing them helped me to figure those thoughts and subjects out. These researches led to a variety of works from sculptures to video/soundscapes.
Mankind is part of nature. However it sometimes seems as if we perceive ourselves to be above the rest of nature. This let me to build a variety of works with concrete, a man-made material, which later would be placed outside. Where nature could take it over or even destroy it.
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