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The photographs of this collage were taken on December 7th, 2019 in Amsterdam, the capital of my small country (The Netherlands) on the occasion of the light festival, edition # 8 there (version 2019/2020 with the central theme 'Disrupt!').

There are 20 artworks shown on this festival. This one, called 'Between the Lines' was created by the Dutch artist Har Hollands.

How can one get a good impression of a dynamic light show with a static photo or static photos? A slideshow where the captures are shown sequently is the best possible option, but Caedes doesn't provide in this possibility. That is why I've chosen for a collage of 8 photos taken at the same place. I used the same time increments between the photos. Even though my 'solution' isn't optimal, it's the only way to get an impression of its dynamic character at Caedes.

Information/description provided by the festival committee: "With his dynamic artwork 'Between the lines', Har Hollands disrupts your gaze and encourages you to look differently. Har Hollands is a light architect - in other words, his building material is light. His lighting designs adorn not only bridges and masts, but also shopping malls, pyramids, and temples. For him, light is not merely a means of orientation, but something that has the power to touch people too. With his creative designs, he stimulates fantasy and gives a new light to places that were bare and dark before. For this edition of Amsterdam Light Festival, he transformed the monumental crane on the Entrepotdok, which dates from 1951. At that time, the crane was used for loading and unloading ships. Merchandise was lifted from the ships so that it could then be transported to the warehouses on the quays. The crane was in use until the 1970s. Now, it functions as a landmark that reminds us of the activity that used to take place in the area. Har Hollands programmed a large number of lighting configurations for the industrial crane's arm. Recognizable patterns, in different rhythms and variations, are lighting up on its boom. Har Hollands: "The installation shows that with only 84 lines of light, you can make numerous combinations." The alternating play of light completely disrupts the familiar structure of the arm's robust construction."