BONAIRE : Unforgettable! from the series "Filled Emptiness unique Worlds"
For four years, I lived on the island of Bonaire, part of the Leeward Islands, which belong to the Caribbean Netherlands. Unforgettable!
The coral beaches, the sea and the space were of a unique beauty: the colours were breathtakingly beautiful.
The lonely spaces, the silence as if on another planet, isolated, lonely, alone with the emerald nature: the water, or deep blue, ominous like the often threatening skies. The Washington Slagbaai reserve in particular seemed like another world, with desert-like plains full of cacti and desolate spaces leading to the sea with coral-red stripes and empty open spaces along the edge of the sea, sometimes full of whimsical rock formations thrown into the sea as if by a cyclops. A single tree, a rarity, broken white pipe coral fringed the sea. The silence and desolation were audible.
Occasionally, a rock formation with ancient inscriptions and drawings of animals in sienna, evidence of a distant past of man-eating Indians, the Karawakken. Watercolours show the red coral pipes with bright blue pools and yellow vegetation among the dry scrub. So lonely, so brilliant, so dazzling in colour, the basis for my later use of colour. It has become internalised in me. All my later works start with this blue-green colour scheme, incomparably unique.
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