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You can only conclude that Jan Vosters plays with nature, with paint and with our perception. It is inherent in people's imagination that they can see signs in the natural environment. That is giving meaning: interpreting things as a sign. We do this constantly. Calling the horizon horizon, while we know that the land beyond it continues. Calling a cloud threatening, the land inhospitable, a tree lonely, the light ominous - all are examples of how we attribute characteristics to nature, which is basically indifferent to the creatures that walk around in it. This is the true subject of Jan Vosters' art. It is the grand stage where he is in his element. Making the seemingly familiar puzzling, raising the question of what is real and what a dream image, where experience of reality touches belief and superstition. What does it mean that he wanted to call this book The True Light? Isn't the last light like the last train, which can be named from day to day, but not in absolute terms? Or is it the opposite of the first light, the hour of creation or birth, is it about destruction or death? It will all depend on the day, on the mood of the moment. (From: The Head and the Clouds by Rob Smo