unblossomed hydrangeas


Chaos is the idea that small actions in a dynamic system can trigger vast and unexpected changes. That, as much as we would like to say what is to come is mathematically determinable, life is indeed a series of intrinsically unpredictable circumstances. From the thought of chaos and the series of events that build the life we navigate within; I came to what I see as the culmination of proof of events and experience past – Stones.

Stones and the landscape from which they derive serve as a reminder of the unpredictability of the passing of time. Shaped by their experience, placed by events no longer visible, the land and its components hold stories of the past. They serve as proof of the chaos in this dynamic system that we call life on Earth.  There is a beauty in the unknown.  In this work I relate stray stones to my own journey through the world - guided by a string of unpredictable circumstances.



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Exhibited at SEELAB in Scheveningen, 2024



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...
And then I realize that, well,
actually, this is just what life is,
a stupendous ongoing index
of all the things that don’t get to happen
because of all the other things that do get to happen.
Which is terribly sad,
but if you really think about it,
you can’t very well go around singing arias
about the sadness of every unrealized possibility,
every unblossomed hydrangea of existence.
All you’d be doing is singing arias every five minutes.
You’d never get anything done.

Strange Opera

by George Bilgere

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