| Karl Staepels photography

These photographs evoke an inner uncomfortable and at times even haunting feeling concerning existential reflections.

Thight, dark and often illusive images illustrate the road I am travelling. The road as a metaphor for a lifelong search for insight and coherence. Images of anchoring places along the road. Desolate, bleak and often oppressive. Myself along the road. Tentative and selfconscious. Gradually progressing - by my own choice or driven by unknown forces? At times standing still - hesitantly and intimidated.

The atmosphere created by these pictures elicits contemplation of the onlooker but creates no ambiguity as to my own rather gloomy view.

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