Floor plan room of Vincent van Gogh, Yellow House, Arles, France
painting bedroom Vincent van Gogh
bovenaanzicht camera obscura
the making of

A three dimensional interpretation of a painting of van Gogh, which is based on De slaapkamer, the painting with the quite distorted perspective and missing shadows.

Both characteristics of this painting led me to the making of a Camera Obscura.
I pasted photopaper on the walls and the floor and put scaled furniture in it. The light that came in through a small hole, casts shadows on the photopaper on the wall and floor. Afterwards, I developed the photopaper and hanged it again in the box.
Eventually De slaapkamer became a ‘peep-show- box’ of the sleeping room with just shadows of the furniture, in which the subjective eye of van Gogh coincides with the central perspective.