Cris Bartual – Cinco Elementos Dirk van der Kooij Friend uses the night as

Friend uses the night as a metaphor to consider the rippling reflections of unrest

and visual art dating back to the 1800s

dancing couples and gestures of romance

The vigorous and expressive gestures on the surface of the image reflect the conflict between reality and fiction and between our embodied lives and our online

the book is inspired by memories of his travels as well as a multitude of stories such as those told by his mother

Cris Bartual – Cinco Elementos Dirk van der Kooij Friend uses the night asThe four elements water, earth, fire light and air were, for many ancient doctrines, the constituents of matter and explained the behavior of the world, to which is added the fifth Aristotelian element: quintessence or ether or vacuum. Each element has its own laws and each one exists in different proportions within the other. They are added, mixed, creating the universe, a system that is defined by its variety and heterogeneity. The artist Cris