Artist & Photographer:

Levi Van Veluw

Part of the “Ballpoint” Series

“Puzzle”, 60 cm x 50 cm & 120 cm x 100 cm, 2006

“Lines”, 60 cm x 50 cm & 120 cm x100 cm, 2006

“Hair”, 60 cm x 50 cm & 120 cm x100 cm, 2007

“Blocks”, 60 cm x 50 cm & 120 cm x 100 cm, 2007

“Spirals”, 60 cm x 40 cm & 120 cm x100 cm, 2007 

“Dots”, 60 cm x 50 cm & 120 cm x100 cm, 2007

“Levi van Veluw´s photo series are all self-portraits, drawn and photographed by himself: a one-man-process. His works constitute elemental transfers – modifying the face as object – combining it with other stylistic elements to create a third visual object with a large visual impact. The work you see therefore is not a portrait, but an information-rich image of colour, form, texture, and content. The image contains the history of a short creative process, with the artist shifting between the entities of subject and object.
Giving familiar elements such as a ballpoint-line a new context results in a confusing conflict between the objects normal associations and the new values given it in this new context. The author and object of these elemental transfers , Levi van Veluw explains his method: “I sit in front of a mirror with several objects and ideas. That day, the process takes shape, and slowly I create a new object I find interesting.”