By Jan Theun van Rees
110 × 80 cm, edition 1/3 + 1 AP , 2025
Pigment inkt, op Innova Photorag bright white, op 2 mm museumkarton ‘White Wash’Wenge Veneer with UV 70 Museumglass
(Also available in 40 × 55 cm, edition 3)

This work is part of the series Painted Room

In Scrambled Morninglight, Jan Theun van Rees constructs a space where colour, light, and architecture dissolve into pure perception. This large-format work—part of his Painted Room series, is not a depiction of an existing room, but a spatial invention, built solely to explore how light transforms constructed surfaces into image.

The composition is animated by layered tones of red, with flashes of purple, orange, and yellow that appear to scatter like fragments of morning light. The title references both the time of day and the fragmented way in which light and colour are perceived and remembered.

As with all works in the Painted Room series, this space never existed until Van Rees built and photographed it. It is a visual proposition: a way of thinking through architecture, photography, and the physical presence of colour in space.