Plays of nature

From an early age Rick Keijzer is fascinated by fossils, minerals and old things that came from the ground. The idea that a fossil was once a living creature and that minerals and precious stones took millions of years to form aroused his fantasy about how these things had happened. Years later he studied the wondrous ways in which people tried to explain fossils and strangely formed stones throughout history.

“Plays of Nature”, (LUDI NATURAE) is one of the explanations the scientists of the 17th century came up with to explain the forms found in nature. Not only does art imitate nature, (ARS SIMIA NATURAE) but sometimes nature imitates art. This is an example of the fantastic human imagination, and the urge to explain the unknown.

In his works Rick Keijzer refers to the inherent ways in which Man tries to interpret coincidental forms to patterns, and the creative force of nature is personalized. “Plays of Nature” is an ode to those who, with limited knowledge of earth’s history but with unlimited imagination try to explain the unexplainable.

Plays of nature is an ongoing project with multiple series that originate from the same concepts.