Angie

I often set myself themes that I want to photograph - wind, for example. Or abstract themes such as transience. Decay. At the moment I'm preoccupied with absence - how the hell do you photograph something like that? It's exciting. If I succeed, I'd like to make a whole series out of it. This picture, 'Angie', is a first step, a beginning.

Why the title? Because I like the song. Mick Jagger and Keith Richard talk about the impossibility of having a relationship with a woman called Angie. Supposedly she didn't even exist at the time the song was written. But as is the case with lyrics, Keith needed a name with two syllables, and that was 'Angie'. He doesn't mean a real woman, he says.

Well, why shouldn't we believe him? Everyone has their own Angie, don't they?

With stark contrast and minimal elements, this extremely reduced image invites silence. A sliver of red and a black shape cut across a mostly white surface. Its clean, sparse, conceptual composition with symbolic red, black, and grey forms evokes expressive simplicity with weight - space and narrative through absence.

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