The Face 1932-06

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Blackbrook is a series, which originated after a two-week-long meditation in a trappist-monastery at a lake in England.

Algae and seeds moving constantly on the lake’s surface. Markus Bollen usually controls his frames up into the very corners of his ground glass. With millimeter precision he decides which leaf is still to be seen on the edge of the picture.

However with this series he had to give up this last bit of control, as the subject kept moving continuously while he changed the ground glass for the film magazine.

The reflexions of the surrounding trees and the clouds above in the sky, together with the structures of the floating seeds and leaves made almost abstract representations of nature.