Year
    2021 - ongoing
Material
    Reinforced fiberglass wood speaker system high-powered LED lights board computer paint
Chasing The Dot (2024), Chasing The Dot at Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede (NL). Photo: Lotte Stekelenburg
Chasing The Dot (2024), Chasing The Dot at Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede (NL). Photo: Lotte Stekelenburg
Chasing The Dot (2021), Versmèlten Versmólten at Kunstenlab Deventer (NL). Photo: Koen Kievits
Chasing The Dot (2021), Versmèlten Versmólten at Kunstenlab Deventer (NL). Photo: Koen Kievits
Chasing The Dot (2024), Chasing The Dot at Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede (NL). Video: Kasper van der Horst
Description

Chasing The Dot (2021-ongoing) is an immersive rollercoaster of light and colour, a sensorial plunge into the limits of perception. Within a vast, horizonless Ganzfeld space, the audience floats through storm-like fields of colour, blazing with indirect light, 1 million lumen waves carrying vivid after-images. At the centre of their gaze, a single floating point, he foveal dot, flares to life and remains fixed, no matter where the eye turns.

Premiered at Rijksmuseum Twenthe, this installation explores stroboscopic thresholds and synaesthesia. Inspired by Brion Gysin’s cut-up technique, the meticulously crafted light score fragments and reassembles vision, prompting open-eye hallucinations. Viewers experience a sensory fusion, seeing with their ears and listening with their eyes. Every modulation of hue, frequency, and decay reveals the hidden architecture of consciousness, exposing its hinges and seams. The audio emerges directly from the humming, pulsing, and crackling of the powerful lights, intertwining seamlessly with the visual hallucinations. It sounds like a rhythmic, electric storm rich, textured, and hypnotically synchronized with waves of colour.

Here, light becomes tangible matter. Perception transforms into choreographed dance, casting each viewer as co-author. The artwork completes itself when spectators close their eyes, creating private cinemas behind their eyelids. Chasing The Dot demonstrates how flexible our perception of reality truly is, highlighting how astonishingly fine tuned our brains are in creating consciousness.