INVISIBLE BUT RECOGNIZABLE
At first glance, Maria Sezer’s series of paintings resemble naturalistic "water landscapes". Upon closer inspection, these paintings reveal more than reproductions of nature. Nature has been observed and was the source of inspiration for this body of work. Elements of nature have been used to create new compositions. While these compositions may not exist as such, we would not be surprised to find them in nature one day: invisible but recognizable.

The artist has continued to use heaps of decomposing matter and rootlike shapes seen in her earlier works. In this series, the heaps and rootlike sructures have disintegrated. They fall apart, change shape, regroup, flow, turn upside down to form cloudlike shapes in the water. Perhaps this can be seen as different stages in the process of the metamorphosis of matter.

Heaps, spirals, clusters, and newly born elements have found specific places: water and air. Full of organic-like material, the elements float, hang, lurk under and on top of the water’s surface and in the air. Do water and air generate organic matter or is it the other way around?

The paintings are built up of many small, mostly horizontal and vertical brushstrokes. The small parts in the paintings are loosely organized to form a balance in new wholes. The horizontal and vertical shapes represent parts of organic matter in every state of their life-cycle. They decompose (horizontally), grow (vertically) as they turn into another matter. Like the flow of the life-cycle this is a balanced process that follows certain rules, this flow cannot be changed.

The dualism of change and permanence fascinates Maria Sezer. Nature’s change is a slow, continuous, almost imperceivable process. Since the changes occur in a circular repetitive sequence and continually pass over the same point, it is as if nothing actually changes. By focusing on different stages of the changing-process and different states of organic life, Sezer reminds us of the passing of time. Likewise, she intends to shows that everything happens simultaneously and repetitively , that nothing really changes, but only repeats itself.

Since there is no beginning and no end, but only continuation and repetition, Sezer wonders if because of the permanence of change that that what we perceive as a dynamic process could be a static state. Does time really flow or is it only an illusion