Marcel Wesdorp
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​'BUT NO ONE WAS SO KNOWN IN HER VOICE'    1996 - 1999
WORK PROCESS    1996 - 1999    OTHER PAGE

YPORT    (49.74202, 0.3033934​)    1998  (photos)    2002  (​photos printing)    |    YPORT  N49E000     2016   (digital rendering​ in color)
three times exactly the same spot from the point where the sea photos of the canal were taken at a different time of day, the fourth image is a digital computer render from the same spot and the same height ​18 years later

DOUBLE VIEWS    1999
Polaroid negatives

CLOUDS    1999
4x5" negatives without making prints of them   (cutout just as I envisioned it)

previous to THE GREEN RAY    1999 - 2000  (photos)    2002  (photos printing)
KODAK barium paper    /     two from four framed   50 x 62 cm   2025

​'BUT NO ONE WAS SO KNOWN IN HER VOICE'    2000
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Collection Inerlinden CV    four of the eight photos and a portrait photo (edition of two)    BLAAK 16, ROTTERDAM    2010 - 2020

WHEN MY EYES ARE CLOSED, I'M WHISPERING NOISES TO THE BACKGROUND OF MY MOUTH    2000
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WHEN MY EYES ARE CLOSED, I'M WHISPERING NOISES TO THE BACKGROUND OF MY MOUTH    2001
WORK PROCESS   2000    OTHER PAGE

THE GREEN RAY    2002 - 2003

VELUWE    2002
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6x6 dia

 THE GARDEN    commissioned by the Social Insurance Bank    2002 - 2003 
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Photoshop assemblage after a year of visiting many gardens with a technical camera


Cibachrome transparent in ceramic tempered glass, 760 x 246 cm  (nine parts)

RAUM    2004
empty room    |    Raum I  (photo assemblage)    |    Raum II  (digital drawing - A5 gyclee print)

I WISH I COULDN'T LIE    2005
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untitled image 27 march 2005    4775 x 3698 pix

Explore the possibilities of a digital landscape in film, photograph, script and a map from March 27 to December 24 2005
where the objects in time may pass to the equal for the quotidian modifications and the pleasant end and less only refuge to order resumes   (prologue from the notebook)
IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER :
​04/10/05  |  18/10/05  |  24/10/05  |  24/10/05  |  08/11/05  |  08/11/05  |  08/11/05 idea to put the high-resolution images on negatives |  03/12/05  |  06/12/05. |  06/12/05  High Res  |  10/12/05  |  12/12/05  1280x720p resolution for movie  |  19/12/05 untitled terrain (digital elevation model)  |  24/12/05  Topo Low Field  |  24/12/05 Landscape from above at an altitude of 27370 meters and comes to 10 x 10 kilometers  |  30/12/05 Movie title  

FROM THE NOTEBOOK    2005 - 2006
A virtual space; a landscape that doesn't actually exist, but invented and made visible. The works that will emerge from this landscape can be understood as a visual record of this landscape, questioning its own reality. This will take shape in various media, such as film, photography, and maps. It is not a longing for an ideal environment; this environment has no animal life; it is populated by the landscape itself; the clouds, the wind, and the various weather conditions. It has mist, sun, night, seasons, and so on.
The virtual camera is the subject of the visual experience of the landscape, with the eyes of observation being the camera. The choice of a virtual landscape instead of a real one is self-evident, because the reproduced landscape returns to reality, while a virtual one doesn't, simply because it doesn't exist. It is fiction, and from this fiction I continue writing, because that's what it is. It is data for a sunny day, a rainy night, a green, hilly landscape, a lake, or even a desert.

​22 december 2005
My conceptual development often involves a gut feeling, where the motifs move along the spine of consciousness. Only then can I begin to think from images that claim a right to exist. This sounds weighty, but it's true. Only in retrospect do I notice that traces of previous work nestle in contemporary contemplation; the contemplative as observer, where the subject dissolves and finds itself again. Emptiness is a key aspect of my work, with which I take a stance on our organized, materialistic society, in conjunction with the belief in a god as compensation for the realization that our existence is temporary.

3 January 2006
FILM TEST    September​  2005

UNTITLED LANDSCAPE   test c-print    ​December  2005
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44 x 25 cm   |   ​framed  2025

I WISH I COULDN'T LIE / OUT OF NOTHING    2006 - 2012
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my first High Res work from 2006 in which I managed to have a work calculated in 320 million pixels and decided to give the 3D coordinates in the landscape where you are standing as the title of the work
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I WISH I COULDN'T LIE / OUT OF NOTHING    2006 - 2012   AND FURTHER    NEW PAGE
WORK PROCESS    from    2006 - 2012 -    NEW PAGE
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