The Artist and the Cipher

At the La Peer hotel lobby, David van Eyssen presents moving shapes across oversized screens, glowing in a flat, ghostly green.

For David van Eyssen, the work circles around Cryptomnesia — memories returning without recognition, obscuring the origin of thought.

A visitor watches the screen while David explains, both briefly unsure where thought begins and memory ends.

I tried to capture the scene as it was. The artist and the visitor are reduced to silhouettes, the screen flattening into something harder to place.

Between the shifting shapes and their outlines, the image no longer knows where it begins or ends.

From there, it morphs from document to transformation.

The screen becomes a memory engine, the artist reduced to a shadow within it.

And then it shifts — just slightly — as if you were the one it remembered.

The lens Leica Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4 ASPH on the M10-P. Precise in low light, revealing more than you remember seeing.