#sundaybluesedit Sunday Selection @slangenbai

Etretat Cliffs

Rebecca: This week I invite you to explore the feed of another blueser. Bart @slangenbai, is artist who finds sunday’s to be blue. I’m amazed by this phenomenon. What is it about Sundays that makes so many of us melancholy and why are so many creatives blue on Sunday? I’ve written about this for Juxt before, but I continue to see it in action each week in my tag. I get pleasure from finding so many of us coming together each week.

Even if you don’t have the blues on Sunday, I strongly recommends Bart’s feed. You can find him on IG @slangenbai.

Bart: My name is Bart Slangen and I live in Belgium, in a historical city called Ghent. Don’t really like labels but I am a painter (maybe you can see that in my layered photography?). I grew up in a quite artistic family, my dad is a painter and he was head of an art school. My mother was a dance teacher.

I used to do a lot of analog photography but since the digital revolution my lovely camera’s are eating dust, I regret that and it’s gonna change … Photography is very important to my artistic work. Before the ‘iPhone-era’ I always carried a little compact in my pocket and. My view is always in “cadrage” J.

For my job (art rental) I am on the road a lot, that of course explains my road-paintings-photography.

I started ‘gramming’ about a year ago (I think). Ever since IG is becoming an obsession.

When I first saw the “sundaybluesedit” tag, I tought: “yeah, that says it all” … I am a happy married man with 2 great kids but (since I was a child) I have a thing for everything that’s melancholic, dark and moody. In music and art. Those things control my life. A photo is only a good one when it fits the ‘this could be the cover for an album’-definition. Therefore you can see a lot of ‘soundtrack-locations’ in my pix.

This particular photo was taken on a trip along the French coastline of Normandy. A place called Etretat. I used to go there with my parents when I was just a little boy back in the seventies. Now we go there with our kids. The chalk cliffs are really impressive. These days it’s getting more and more a tourist place but still, it’s very beautiful. Claude Monet made a lot of paintings on that spot. Google it sometime …

The IG-community opened new things for me, I am not such a big talker and expresser of feelings. I used to communicate my moods by my paintings, my photography was always a tool like a brush or paint, that has changed a lot lately. And I thank people like Izzy, Rebecca and all my new IG-friends (you know who you are) for making this universal, ‘borderless’ platform so wonderful.

I Hope you enjoy my stuff and I love getting feedback ! It is good to be here !!