Maarten Demmink: Pine Island at Atelier Ferron

Maarten Demmink is a landscape artist, but his landscapes do not glorify the beauty of nature. In his work, the surrounding world, subject to its own forces, imposes its own laws—raw forces of nature. Last autumn, the southeastern United States was struck by hurricanes Helene and Milton. Although more than 100,000 homes were severely damaged or completely destroyed, the same images kept appearing in various media: about ten houses that seemed to symbolize the disaster, yet did not do justice to its true scale. Demmink transformed these news photographs into meticulously crafted wall reliefs. Impressive reflections; robust yet fragile, they make the power of nature painfully tangible.