The site where ODE TO THE NOMADS OF THE ROAD was created is a rather desolate and forgotten piece of port in Seabruges. As a remnant of a thriving past with dredgers and a coal plant, we now find only emptiness. The ideal breeding ground for new ideas and a place ready for a new realization.
Painting in that abandoned hangar in the port of Seabruges, he was confronted by the numerous truck drivers from all parts of Europe who stop there on weekends. Their stories gripped him.
From here the idea arose to make a tribute to those people. From here the work ODE TO THE NOMADS OF THE ROAD was born. The nomadic life is not new, is of all times and burningly topical. In the dynamic times in which we now live, nomadism will increase greatly, just think of people fleeing violence and war and increasing migration due to climate change.
ODE TO THE NOMADS OF THE ROAD consists of three parts, which have been extensively examined beforehand by preliminary studies.
On the first part, in blue, two figures are shown. These are the man and the woman. The woman depicted with kind of angel wing makes a single movement. The man is depicted in a double monumental movement. Both figures reach for each other, but just barely touch. They long for each other, think of each other but cannot physically touch for much of their lives.
The man is always on the road, the woman is at home with the family. As a bond between the two reaching arms, a vase of flowers is shown in a light color as a symbol of domestic bliss. Also, the symbolic dog at the bottom is a symbol of fidelity and love.
The cage carried by a bird symbolizes the man's desires toward the woman.
The second part, the "route," "being on the road" is shown. In front, in yellow, we find the driver in his truck. Behind it, the road he leaves behind. The road consisting of fragments of landscapes, animals, a bird and an airplane. A road full of dangers and with monumental demons. Here the horizontality and linearity of the road is graphically emphasized.
The last piece depicts the farewell. The woman in white waves the man off in a dancing motion.
The man, in inverted position, departs on his journey.
The trailor as a form of sculpture, as a beam on which to impose this work is the ideal instrument for further transportation on the road. It is a peace giving thought that this artwork will be transported by the driver for which the work was created.
The trailor arrived July 2022, was finalised August 2022 and ready for departure through Europe immediately after.
The trailor pays homage to nomadism, but soon will bring aesthetics among the banality of the road.
