I am that Out of which Everything emerges, As wich Everything appears And Into which Everything fades
Dancer, Mixed media, 100x100, 2023
Out of this trembling whole we’re made Plastic puppets
Molded mud
Arising from the ether
Like bubbles floating up Clay faces
Of infinite variety
Loud mumbles and Sweet sizzles
As our silhouettes shift their shape merging folding splitting
We are the limbs
We are the faces
We are the movement Of the thousand faced dancer
Dancing void, Mixed media, 30x30, 2021
Dream
shapes, Mixed media, 40x40, 2022
Branch, Mixed media, 50x50, 2023
Blue entity, Mixed media, 30x30, 2023
Unified field, Mixed media, 40x40, 2023
Still from ‘The Door’ 4 minute short fillm 2022
Rupture, Mixed media, 50x50, 2022
Through the veil, Mixed media, 40x50, 2021
Dancing line, 50x50, 2022
This dancer knows nothing of rhythm or feet nothing of ground to move on arms to shake or fingers to tap It vibrates suspended in itself and as itself
Eternally moving and effortlessly still Devoid of form yet vibrantly alive
Char filaments, 50x70, 2022
Suspended line, 80x100, 2022
Still from ‘A Voyage’ 4 minute short fillm 2022
Fluid core, Mixed media, 30x30, 2021
Ripples, Mixed media, 50x60, 2021
Dissolving mass, Mixed media, 50x50, 2023
Dancing white void, Mixed media, 30x30, 2020
Fragments, Mixed media, 50x60, 2023
Arjan was trained as an architect and is active as an artist and meditation teacher
“In my work I play with the impossibility of giving form to the formless. The artwork, as well as my meditation practice can to be seen as different paths of the same inquiry: The inquiry into the emptiness of form and the nature of self Ultimately beauty points the way to what is essentially true about all of us”
As visual meditations, the work invites the viewer Into a reality prior to thoughts, words and concepts. A place of stillness, yet vibrant and full
Arjan van Toorenburg (1989), NLEvery breath A new beginning Every beat An end
