A long time has passed since my first piece inspired by the images on Rijksmuseum's Rijksstudio, but sometimes it takes time to find the materials to make what you have in mind.
This time I moved from prints and photographs, collecting images of rocky landscapes with something sublime about them.
The first picture is an imaginary landscape portraying a group of Lunar Mountains (1874) by James Nasmyth, Vincent Brooks Day & Son and John Murray, while the second print is a picture of the glacier Grindelwald (1763 - 1785) by Charles Melchior Descourtis, Caspar Wolf, Graaf Kalitcheff and Rudolf Samuel Hentzy, probably derived from a series of 43 prints with Swiss landscapes, edited by J. Yntema in Amsterdam in 1785.
The first picture shows instead Castle Berg in Melville Bay, Groenland (1869), by Dunmore & Critcherson, John L. Dunmore and George P. Critcherson, and the second photograph - by William England, Son & Co Marion - shows a glacier in Switzerland (1863-1865).
So there were two elements I wanted to get in my creation: a rocky landscape sculpted by time and weather and figures moving in that rough and sublime space.
The former was provided by a rather unusual configuration of Moroccan rocks with holes created by wind and water; the miniatures added the narrative element to evoke the challenge that nature poses to climbers.
It will take me more time to do a new piece maybe, but, knowing that I can always find endless inspirations while browsing the Rijksstudio collections on Rijksstudio, fills me with joy.
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