"Jan Mast's work can be seen as a marvelous read, an alphabet longing for more. Not just a storyline, but a rhizome of narratives that try to escape every definition. Each of his stories is composed of images, sounds, texts, and thoughts that he creates, casually notes, and collects. Acoustic and visual diary images that he meticulously places so that they slowly but surely build an immense arc of tension.
He orchestrates loose elements into an eclectic symphony that leaves you astounded. These are not poems; this is stronger coffee; this is morphing. The letters of the alphabet change as you try to read them. Sometimes it's a perspective, then again you're looking at a portrait; you try to gauge that image, but it gazes back; it's self-determination.
This 'ambivalence' is not an artistic style, but an attitude; nomadic tricks, an enchantment that the civilized cannot break."
Paul De Vylder
