This was the first commission to make an artwork for a specific waiting room in the hospital.
The space was quite narrow, so I felt the need to enlarge it.
Repeating some basic architectural elements like the window design of the hospital I made a small scale model on my studio table. The view of the fields is actually a classic theatrical solution to suggest immens depth. The trees and shrubs have been cut out and placed in front, the clouds are hanging up in the sky, the background is a few centimeters behind.
The whole model was photographed and enlarged to fit from floor to ceiling in the given space in the hospital.
The result is a waiting room with a view, a large trompe l’oeil in Leiden University Medical Hospital.
The waiting room 2018 digital print on screen 257 x 410 cm collection LUMC
Photography of The waiting room by Gert Jan van Rooij