Rinske Former, KABK

15 juni 2016

If you close your eyes,
Do you fall?
Or do you fly?

As a child I dreamt of flying. Sometimes I actually felt the wind against my cheeks. Sadly, somehow aging goes hand in hand with the inability to believe in something so close to carelessness.

“It’s beautiful when it flies” is my attempt to re-find this childlike state of openness. It’s an escape from reality and at the same time a revival of hope. I looked for the possibility to fly like a bird. During my search, I met three men who build ornithopters. These are machines that are based on the flying mechanism of birds and are man powered. These man have convinced me that dreams and desires may survive in the real world too.
Everything is about hope, because when you reach for the unreachable, the unrealized possibility already gives you wings.