Lydian Brunsting
My work comes from a fascination with the layered nature of the human mind and the subtle interplay between inner and outer worlds. I like to explore how neurology, behaviour, silence and perception shape our reality, and translate this discovery process into images. Themes such as solitude and connection, humanity and nature, order and disruption recur in my photographic work as fields of tension in which contradictions coexist. Through serene, poetic and at times subtly unsettling images, I like to invite the viewer to slow down, let go of the need to understand, and make room for experience. I seek to create a space where complexity need not be resolved, and where layers, paradoxes and silence can exist.

Silence Mis(t)s

In Silence Mis(t)s I explore ADHD-I (formerly known as ADD), a form of ADHD that often remains less visible and may go unnoticed for a long time, particularly in women. The series begins with the tension between a calm outward appearance, control and structure, and an inner world in which thoughts, attention and associations continually shift. What appears still, is in motion. Moving between realistic and abstract imagery, I search for order, establish it, and disrupt it again. Blurring, movement and what remains outside the frame touch on masking, distraction and adaptation. Coping mechanisms, hyperfocus and imagination also find their place within this dynamic. The series follows my longing for stillness, while attention is repeatedly drawn towards what stimulates, moves or seems possible: a search for an equilibrium that never becomes fixed.

Here, somewhere between silence and movement becomes visible what usually remains hidden.

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