TOURISM THOUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. painting 2019
TOURISM THOUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
38x55cm acrylic on wood. Tjørnuvík 2019
Originally this image showed a beautiful view of raw nature. A place that could be visited in silence and respect while one underwent some form of task or job. Then, one day, someone from abroad came to explore this land and defined this view as an icon.
Then this person went back home and told everyone about it. One person told the other, and one thing let to the next and in a short space of time this same place turned into a tourism hotspot.
People from all over the globe came here just to take a picture, the same one. Everyone was taking the same one.
Little by little, each photo that was taken, and each quick visit that this place received, the place grew this structure of windows, lenses and filters.
Each looking glass, whether it was a window or a lens, was a safe place to see this iconic view, but nobody could feel or smell it anymore.
I felt a certain sadness but then I saw the positive side.
The real place was possibly protected by this shield, only those who could stay longer might have the time to go beyond it, to access the real mundane life on it.
and a few images of the process it went though...
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Oh gosh, what a beautiful painting, and yet the meaning behind it is quite deep, and carries both a sense of melancholia and a sense of hidden triumph. I love that you managed to convey such thoughtfulness through this one, Romanie <3 Tourism do break each experience into small pieces of moments as if people are trying to commoditize their experiences through snapshots. But I think you are right, beyond all that fragmented and frantic attempts, there are yet real and genuine experience ahead, for those that spend the time to stay a while to really get to know a place :)
Gorgeous work, Romanie <3 Absolutely wondrous. One of my favourites of yours, to be sure <3
Thank you Veryspider! So happy you connected with this one! It´s one of my favourite that I have done here during this residency. Best Wishes!
Sad what tourism can do. Beautiful concept and painting 🙏🏽
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Very nice panting grat work
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Wonderful work and different.
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It’s a very interesting looking piece. I both love and don’t love all those windows, they’re simultaneously blocking the view and very interesting in and of themselves.
I recently read an article about how Instagram was pretty much ruining a lot of places and am wondering now if you’ve read or experienced similar or if your inspiration was coincidental 😆
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I ´m very familiar with the concept you say the article you read was talking about because I native from island where I´ve seen it be ruined by tourism, Ibiza. I´m now in the Faroe Islands and I felt this was happening here also. I haven´t read about Instagram but I can imagine what it does! Thank you for checking in!
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