AMSTERDAM.- Van Noord’s technique is broad, intuitive, playful. There are calm, crafted images; others more immediate, captured snapshots of events, places, lights; and some are filled with distorted colours, shapes, blemishes – the outcome of van Noord’s use of discarded film. He similarly takes on a wide range of subjects: flowers, decapitated fish, children, nudes, pregnant women, fields, cows, uniting in their exhibition to offer a humorous, sometimes dangerous game of association. Van Noord draws inspiration from his close environment, close friends and family, with studies of everyday life, the environment and people. Light offers a consistent fascination for van Noord – in the glow of street lamps, light captured on tulip petals, the eery unreality of a long-exposed night-shot. In ‘Zelfs Als Molen’ van Noord photographs himself naked and waving on a nighttime street, creating a ghoulish and inscrutable picture. The artist brings to the fore the