Into the light

Into the light
Tymon de Laat - Into the light - model
Tymon de Laat - Into the light
Tymon de Laat - Into the light - Closeup
Tymon de Laat - Into the light - Closeup
Tymon de Laat - Into the light - Closeup
Tymon de Laat - Into the light - Progress
Tymon de Laat - Into the light - Progress
Tymon de Laat - Into the light

“Into the light”
4 meter x 6 meter.
Spray paint on wall.
Made at Bon Sjans.
Van Helmontstraat 25, Rotterdam.
Tymon de Laat 2021.

This is the second mural for the diptych wall project at Bon Sjans Rotterdam. An organisation that helps young men to get reintegrated into society. With the first wall “Out of the dark” I tried to show the start of the process they undertake and this wall symbolizes their culmination of the project. Here you see one of the participants in the full spotlight looking towards the new bright self built future that is in front of him. The line work in the background transitions from the dark in the first wall to light in this one, a very basic but effective means to visually translate the transformation.

Thank you foundation “de nieuwe kans” for your trust and freedom .

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De Laat started painting murals and canvases, often based on his own photographs of the people he met during his travels. He exaggerates the natural lines in their faces, and fills the spaces that appear between those swirling lines with swaths of vivid color. The linework and color palette he applies in that way, are a means of translating his memories of Latin America to visual imagery. The food, the architecture, the clothes, and particularly his respect for the culture of indigenous peoples; it’s all in there, as de Laat transitions it over to enliven drab Western concrete.

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