"This series has not been an attempt to provide an objective portrayal of the place, but rather something that comes as close as possible to how I remember spending time at the family house in Paramaribo."
Artist: Lucas Steinbusch
Project: Re-preserving Memories of Suriname
"Re-preserving Memories of Suriname is record of childhood memories in Suriname. This series has not been an attempt to provide an objective portrayal of the place, but rather something that comes as close as possible to how I remember spending time at the family house in Paramaribo. Being there is relatively eventless, not much happens. It really forces you to wind down and accept that fact that being there is very different than my day-to-day life in De Jordaan in Amsterdam. When you sit a chair in the garden, or lay in hammock, and watch the garden and house for hours from the same perspective, everything becomes rather abstract. A tree might just be a tree when you pass it, watching it for an hour straight does something to it."
"I started to manipulate that material in a way that it, for me, comes as close as possible to how I experienced the place. That means re-framing the material, trying to focus on small things within the bigger whole and see what happens. See whether it might all become a bit more abstract.
In this series, I’ve tried to develop a serries that provides people the chance to experience the experience of being there."
© Lucas Steinbusch