tuned landscapes 3-23b - Limited Edition of 5 Print

The never natural landscapes of the Netherlands and its human influences are explored in the works of the artist Jurgen Rooijackers. The Dutch artist who studied photography at the Fotovakschool in Apeldoorn and graduated at the Artez Art school in Enschede in 1999, restarted his art career in 2020 after several years of working for families with multiple disabled children. Passionately dedicated to the vast possibilities of digital photography and image manipulation as both a medium and a cultural epoch, Rooijackers' narratives draw inspiration from the total diversity offered by the visual arts. Especially the look at the phenomenon of landscape is what is currently occupying him. What is a landscape; how do we experience a landscape; why do we over-romanticize the landscape and how do humans shape nature. Tuning landscapes is how Jurgen Rooijackers describes his process . In almost every landscape-artwork, human emotions are projected on nature. However, nature does not experience emotions as we do and attributing emotions to a landscape stems from the need to humanize everything around us so that we seem to be able to understand what is beyond our imagination. I'm trying to capture the landscape as is. Photography could have provided a solution, were it not that the experience of landscape differs from the photographic (read geometric) registration. I am making an attempt here to correct this difference. I try to create what I experience or what one could experience when one is part of the landscape. I also play with the apparent chaos of nature. So it's all about perception.