Open Composition & Anchor Pieces

Open Composition was conceived as a response to a simple observation.

During the Dutch winter, light is scarce - and colour becomes something more than visual.

Presented at Art Eindhoven, the project invited visitors to interact with a modular painting system that could be reconfigured in multiple ways. Yet beyond the innovation of the format, many reactions focused on something more immediate.

“It made me smile.”

Colour plays a central role in Open Composition.

It operates as an intuitive, emotional, and playful entry point - before any conceptual reading takes place. The work was designed to be approached through curiosity and participation rather than instruction.

From this luminous core, the composition expands and finds its balance through what I call anchor pieces.

Anchor pieces are defined not by size or position, but by function.

They hold the composition together, establishing rhythm, tension, and balance while allowing other elements to shift, rotate, or be reconfigured.

During Art Eindhoven, two anchor pieces were presented that had not previously appeared on my website or Instagram: Written Animal and Moonlight.

Placed on the left, Written Animal functions as an active anchor piece.

The work plays with the fragile symbolism of a flamingo - often associated with delicacy and balance - while presenting it with unexpected power. Its geometric structure and symbolic language reinforce this tension.

On the opposite side, Moonlight operates as a silent anchor piece.

Its sobriety, reduced palette, and symbolic geometry create a counterweight to the expressive charge of Written Animal. Where Written Animal activates the composition, Moonlight stabilises it through restraint.

Between these two anchor pieces, the Open Composition core becomes a field of negotiation — a space where opposing energies coexist: fragility and power, intensity and stillness, gesture and silence.

Open Composition remains intentionally unfinished.

Its form is never fixed; it emerges each time through installation and perception.

Written Animal and Moonlight are currently not visible online.

If you would like to know more about these anchor pieces, feel free to contact me.

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