Seeing Both Ways
Seeing Both Ways relates to Daniel’s fascination with and desire to experience extravagant hope. He creates luminous, hyper-real, abstracted landscapes using digital photography and post-production techniques that are presented in lightboxes or as translucent, fabric prints. In this way, he draws on the rich history of mystical and spiritual art (as seen in stained glass windows) using light transmission to ask the viewer to look into the work as one looks into a window.
For millennia, people and societies have looked beyond rational knowledge and into what many conceive as a spiritual realm. Art has been at the centre of this exploration. Since at least Byzantine times, artists have used abstraction, colour and symbolism to express the inexpressible. Daniel builds on this tradition by combining his contemporary, digital-based practice with ancient rhythms of contemplation and exploration. For him, contemplation and action are two sides of the same coin as are experience and exploration.
