more about the proposal:
"I live in the Dutch region Zeeland (sea-land). For the Dutch, sea and land, water and air, air and land are one. A few years ago I realised myself that life takes place in two different worlds. One world is is the one that we know, the other world is the submarine world. I won't make it to spend half of my life under water, despite that I am now a certified scuba diver. The inspiration is there, I see and discover a lot. I took a dive into this subject of the water world. I worked with magic lanterns. With a group of artists we made new stories for this lively multi-media machine from yesterday. We presented this in a series of shows in the Dutch National Film Museum, Amsterdam. Also for this I studied the subject well. The porcelain objects that acted as slides in fascinated me earlier times. I often work with materials that have a special interaction with light, small changes in transparency. Watermarks have such transparency changes. I have known that for a long time and wanted to do something with that. After I have seen an exhibition of the works of Meret Oppenheim, especially her paper objects I was strengthened in the idea that watermarks can become an important part of an art object. Also wanted to do something with watermarks. Old Dutch stamps have simple watermarks. People sometimes buy stamps of the country they visit, not for sending letters or postcards but as a souvenir, something typical for that country. You can buy stamps at souvenir shops, you can buy porcelain at souvenir shops or something that looks like it (Delft Blue), You can buy typical images of the country visited. Stamps, Porcelain, images of air and water, of wide flat country with inspiration from different times. The watermarks have it all." Anne-Marie van Sprang