Hans Clevers: Extra footage 1

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00:00:26 What do you see?
00:00:28 You see that your eyes are forcing patterns in your vision.
00:00:36 For example, you see a kind of interrupted regularity over there...
00:00:40 There are only dots, there is no line at all, but your eyes see a line.
00:00:44 However, if you look closely, then it is just dots very close to each other.
00:00:50 I studied various microscopic images of our cells and tiny organs today...
00:00:56 And its the same: this is basically also seeing patterns.
00:01:01 To see where these cells are relative to each other.
00:01:02 Is it mere appearance, or is it real?
00:01:07 Sometimes you look and see patterns you did not expect at all.
00:01:10 And this more or less the same thing.
00:01:12 Here is another example, there is no line at all...
00:01:14 It is just two colliding surfaces of dots.
00:01:18 The eye creates a line.
00:01:21 So these patterns have to pop up in your mind...
00:01:26 And you have to ask yourself immediately:
00:01:30 Is this an actual pattern? Is it real, or my imagination, or coincidence?
00:01:40 You will see the very same phenomenon on different places in this painting.
00:02:04 What the artist is doing... it is just dots everywhere.
00:02:07 This seems a kind of sandy road...
00:02:09 That is where the mountain lizard walks.
00:02:11 The work is called 'Mountain Lizard Dreaming'.
00:02:12 She made hundreds of paintings.
00:02:15 Its a very symbolic story, for the title always contains something related to dreaming.
00:02:21 And they always have a cross, like this one.
00:02:23 It is composed of firm strokes.
00:02:28 In a way it breaks the entire dot pattern...
00:02:32 And at the same time it directs your attention.
00:02:39 Once you look to the centre of the piece...
00:02:40 Everything starts to move
00:02:46 So it is alive?
00:02:47 Yes, it is a living painting.

Hans Clevers: Extra footage 1

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