DS23010 – TEFAF 2026

DS23010

Diptych – 200 x 240 cm

Acrylics on acoustic absorbing canvas

DS23010 was created in 2023.

The tenth work of that year.

Sometimes you only realize later what you were truly capturing at the time.

When I look at this diptych now, I see movement.

Not a still image, but waves.

Waves that almost make sound.

Frozen Resonance

There is rhythm in this work.

The build-up of light at the top.

The density of blue beneath it.

The tension along the vertical line.

It resembles a sound wave frozen at the exact moment of expansion.

As if a vibration has been held in paint.

In audiology, we speak of frequencies.

Of amplitude.

Of resonance within a space.

Here, I see that same principle - without measuring equipment.

The paint moves like sound.

The layers behave like fields of tone.

The light feels like higher frequencies.

The deep blue like lower tones that create pressure rather than volume.

And precisely at the boundary between the two panels, something emerges that resembles interference.

Not a collision, but an interaction.

The Space Between the Waves

What perhaps touches me most is that this work does not only show movement - it also embodies absorption.

It is painted on acoustic absorbing canvas.

That means the surface itself takes in sound.

Reflection is reduced.

Reverberation softened.

In spaces where tension is palpable, acoustics can make the difference between unrest and safety.

I witness this daily in my work - how strongly we respond to what we do not always consciously hear.

Here, that principle becomes part of the artwork.

The waves on the canvas seem almost audible.

Yet the canvas itself chooses absorption.

It receives.

It softens.

It prevents echo.

Perhaps that is no coincidence.

Listening Without the Ear

In my work as an audiologist, I see how people struggle with sound.

With tinnitus.

With overstimulation.

With loss.

But I also see something else.

It is not only about what we hear.

It is about how we make space for what is sounding.

DS23010 feels like a moment in which sound is not fought, but captured.

Not to control it, but to understand it.

The light does not conquer the darkness.

It moves through it.

Like a tone that does not become louder, but clearer.

The Vertical Line as Transition

The line in the center of the diptych reminds me of a boundary frequency.

A transition between two domains that influence each other without erasing one another.

Two panels.

Two fields.

One continuum.

Just as we are not only body.

Not only brain.

Not only emotion.

Everything resonates.

What Do You Hear?

Perhaps you see a sea.

Perhaps a horizon.

Perhaps an inner storm.

I hear waves.

Not loud.

Not demanding.

But present.

And perhaps that is what this work ultimately wishes to say:

Not everything that moves needs to make sound.

And not everything that is silent is without vibration.

DS23010

200 x 240 cm

Acrylics on acoustic absorbing canvas

A frozen resonance.

A field of waves that both speaks and absorbs.

Dyon Scheijen | Art of Hearing