There is alot to say about this project but i will just tell a story that hasn't been told in the making off's that you can read on several sites on the internet. The Sunflower fountain was an idea. An idea that never really ended. When i drive by some places in my car i can still see the projects textures. Everything i made and recreated from this project is somewhere in my living area. This felt really good, because with all the attention the project got, it feels not like everything you see out here has been projected into the project, but the exact opposite. Its like all those things were rebuild and put up in real live. Just to remember how much this project ment to me. There are alot of things that kept me going. That kept me working on this project day after day and that was because of all the people out there that followed my progression on threed.com forums.

I actualy got some online friends there. People start to know you and you get to know them and there artwork which gives you a feeling of being respected. And that is wat everything is about. Traveling to different places or even other countries gives the project more depth and reality to it. For this project i went to, Belgium, The Netherlands, And Somewhere near the border or Germany which was on the whole other side of teh Netherlands for me. I live on the side which lies very closely to Antwerp. Its actualy one train station away. When i was there a few weeks ago on the 31th of August i saw the place where i shot my broken glass shots that became a overlay that has been projected on the window that you can see on the left side of this screen. But the cool thing was. It was replaced by a wooden painting, and the broken glass was gone.

So you have something in your project that probaly has just been there for about a few weeks and it stay's forever.Why did i choose the name The Sunflower Fountain for this project. Well, what i found important was that if the project would be noticed by people. And they would like it, it should have a name that is not used very often and has a own face to it. I also believe, that i was the name that gave me this result on the project. If you have a name that is actualy catching, you enjoy working on your project much more. At least, that is what it felt with the project. When i was walking down the street looking for textures or just on inspiration tour. When the name: The Sunflower Fountain came to me in my head, i just got excited to find more cool objects to take photographs of.

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