The theme 'Pointing Elsewhere' represented history for me. My research about the history of the CBK Zeeland building, revealed that in the 18th century the 'Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie' or 'MCC' (trading company of Middelburg) was seated at their address: Balans 17 in Middelburg. In those days it was called the 'Commerciehuis (commercial house)'. 

The MCC had a big part in trading enslaved Africans in the West-Indies in the 18th century. The enslaved African people were shipped from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean and sold in the West Indies to traders and plantation owners. When back in the Netherlands the MCC sold plantation products (mostly sugar, tobacco and cacao) and made big profits of this so-called triangle trades.

In 2014, the Provence of Zeeland organised the national commemoration of the abolition of slave trade in 1814. Considering my Dutch-Suriname background I wanted to unfold the history of the MCC and their trading triangle journeys visible in this location, and create a sense of place. 

The result, a pattern of triangles of (overlapping) paper in three shades, was created and build after days of shifting, taping and removing with no design in advance, in full response to the space.The use of the triangle became a symbol for the trading triangles of the MCC during the working process and was also inspired by the art of the Maroon in Suriname, descendants of escaped enslaved people. 
The installation revealed bigger triangles and three columns that interacted with the pillars in the space, the visibility depended on the light conditions: the moment of the day and angle of daylight changed which paper was visible. Just as history this image was not fixed, and perceptions changes in time; and this site-responsive work was there to be sensed and seen.