“You somehow always come back to a point you’ve been to before—which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.”

“SKYline redefined” follows “SKYline,” also featuring a cloudless, bright blue view of the sky crossed by a diagonal line—apparently the skyline. As noted in “SKYline,” the term “skyline” is used worldwide to describe a panorama showing a city with its tallest buildings on the horizon. Even though there are no truly straight lines in nature, only curves and bends, we assume we see straight lines, or imagine them. And even if they don’t exist, they can at least be created artificially. Art gives us the opportunity to add impossibilities to realities—for whatever purpose. In this case, to achieve linguistic ambiguity. However, while the line in “SKYline” was montaged in, in “SKYline redefined” it actually exists (even if only temporarily)—it’s the contrail of an airplane.

The photo shows the sky over Callantsoog, North Holland, and is therefore part of the series “Playing around with Callantsoog skies.” Additionally, the seagull flying over the skyline refers to another theme, the Sea series, though in “SKYline” the sea below the sky is not shown. The SKY series explores the theme of “SKY” on three levels: visually, in writing, and acoustically.