{"id":30048,"date":"2025-11-11T09:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/?p=30048"},"modified":"2025-11-12T01:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:38:23","slug":"thomas-rosen-rsn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/2025\/11\/11\/thomas-rosen-rsn\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Rosen (rsn)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"30048\" class=\"elementor elementor-30048\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3016513 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3016513\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d17f919 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d17f919\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 22-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\tYear of birth: 1982<br>\nWhere do you live: Ruhr area, Germany<br>\nYour education: Master of Arts in Media Studies \u00b7 Bachelor of Arts in Theater Studies<br>\nDescribe your art in three words: Mixing \u00b7 Blurring \u00b7 Disappearing<br>\nYour discipline: (Abstract) photography \u00b7 Ambient\/Drone music<br>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rsn-entities.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rsn.entities\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a><\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-deed828 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"deed828\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-75dd7fa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"75dd7fa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30027 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thomas-Rosen-rsn-Rsn-Promotional-Photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thomas-Rosen-rsn-Rsn-Promotional-Photo.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thomas-Rosen-rsn-Rsn-Promotional-Photo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thomas-Rosen-rsn-Rsn-Promotional-Photo-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thomas-Rosen-rsn-Rsn-Promotional-Photo-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thomas-Rosen-rsn-Rsn-Promotional-Photo-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/h4><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your work explores how perceptions can be altered. Could you describe a moment when you yourself felt your own perception shift while creating a piece?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This happens quite regularly \u2014 both in photography and in music. I find my motifs in everyday life, while I\u2019m out and about. Details, structures, and colors catch my eye, and I mentally detach them from their surroundings to see whether they hold something I want to capture. At that moment, my perception shifts \u2014 through detachment, focusing, zooming in. With music, it happens in the flow, while writing or performing. It feels like a blurring and dissolving, as if things slip away and reform into something new.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30463 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rsn_Thomas-Rosen_flowing-absorbing-cutouts-2_2024-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rsn_Thomas-Rosen_flowing-absorbing-cutouts-2_2024-rotated.jpg 750w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rsn_Thomas-Rosen_flowing-absorbing-cutouts-2_2024-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rsn_Thomas-Rosen_flowing-absorbing-cutouts-2_2024-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>\u00a0Thomas Rosen (rsn) | Flowing &amp; Absorbing cutouts | 2024<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of your photographs emphasize shapes and colors without referencing external objects. How do you decide when an image is \u201ccomplete\u201d if there is no subject to guide you?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s a very good question, and one I can\u2019t fully explain rationally. It\u2019s an intuitive decision that comes to me when I select the final section of an image. Since my works are not digitally edited, I already know which areas of the original photograph will be cropped out. But the exact frame \u2014 what will eventually be printed and exhibited \u2014 is decided spontaneously and entirely by feeling.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30467 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rsn_Thomas-Rosen_flowing-absorbing-cutouts-8_2024-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rsn_Thomas-Rosen_flowing-absorbing-cutouts-8_2024-rotated.jpg 750w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rsn_Thomas-Rosen_flowing-absorbing-cutouts-8_2024-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rsn_Thomas-Rosen_flowing-absorbing-cutouts-8_2024-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>\u00a0Thomas Rosen (rsn) | Flowing &amp; Absorbing cutouts | 2024<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The series flowing &amp; absorbing cutouts blurs color structures and contours. What sparked this idea of blurring as both an aesthetic and philosophical gesture?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My artistic roots lie in music \u2014 a broad field where I\u2019ve explored many genres. Since turning toward drone, ambient, and noise, detail has become central to my practice. In both music and visual art, the detail contains the whole, yet also stands independently and reveals a new world. I\u2019m drawn to subtle structures that only reveal themselves through close or repeated attention. Their blending and disappearance create tension and artistic depth. Like in the series mentioned, overlaps and shifting nuances \u2014 visible or purely imagined \u2014 are also crucial in my music.<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sound is central to rsn. How does working with immersive soundscapes influence your visual compositions \u2014 and vice versa?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though most works stand on their own, they are closely connected. Both are rooted in immersion. While music and photography are usually created separately, there are moments when the two reference or complement one another \u2014 sometimes even intentionally brought into harmony. flowing &amp; absorbing cutouts is a good example of that.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30468 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rsn_Thomas-Rosen_flowing-absorbing-cutouts-1_2024-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rsn_Thomas-Rosen_flowing-absorbing-cutouts-1_2024-rotated.jpg 750w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rsn_Thomas-Rosen_flowing-absorbing-cutouts-1_2024-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rsn_Thomas-Rosen_flowing-absorbing-cutouts-1_2024-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>\u00a0Thomas Rosen (rsn) | Flowing &amp; Absorbing cutouts | 2024<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have experience with collaborative music projects like [ B O L T ]. What freedoms or challenges do you find in creating solo work under rsn compared to band projects?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve spent most of my artistic life working in collectives. I value the exchange and the anticipation of what a group effort will become. Collaboration carries a strong emotional resonance for me. At the same time, some ideas demand to surface as solo work. The challenge is that on stage you have no backup \u2014 you\u2019re fully responsible and can\u2019t allow yourself to step back. But that vulnerability also opens possibilities, pushing you to stay present in the moment. I don\u2019t enjoy being the center of attention \u2014 that\u2019s an advantage of group projects. But when a solo work or exhibition is necessary, I have no choice but to take that position. What concerns me is when the focus shifts from the work to the artist as a persona. My art should speak independently \u2014 the ego gets in the way of immersion.<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your process seems to invite accidents and chance. Could you share a moment when an unexpected technical \u201cmistake\u201d led to a breakthrough?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This happens all the time in music, because I use a variety of effects whose interactions can\u2019t be fully predicted or controlled. Coincidence is part of the process \u2014 the challenge lies in shaping a complete work that incorporates everything: the mistakes, the environment, and (especially live) the audience\u2019s response. In photography, accidents are more visually striking. For instance, the triptych confused &amp; blurred details #2.1 is the only one of my works whose colors differ from the original. The altered tones came from a misadjusted printer. Yet the result was so expressive that I chose the \u201cmistake\u201d as the final piece.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30469 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rsn_Thomas-Rosen_flowing-absorbing-cutouts-7_2024-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rsn_Thomas-Rosen_flowing-absorbing-cutouts-7_2024-rotated.jpg 750w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rsn_Thomas-Rosen_flowing-absorbing-cutouts-7_2024-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rsn_Thomas-Rosen_flowing-absorbing-cutouts-7_2024-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>\u00a0Thomas Rosen (rsn) | Flowing &amp; Absorbing cutouts | 2024<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your exhibitions range from galleries to music venues. How do you adapt installations or presentations for these different contexts?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a small challenge each time \u2014 and one I enjoy. I want to create immersive experiences, so I consider how people move through and use a space. Sometimes I activate the entire room; other times I build intimate areas that invite viewers to pause. This applies to both music and photography, since my concerts often take place outside classical music venues. It\u2019s a great artistic challenge \u2014 and a privilege \u2014 to show my work in unconventional spaces. I hope there is even more potential to explore.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year of birth: 1982 Where do you live: Ruhr area, Germany Your education: Master of Arts in Media Studies \u00b7 Bachelor of Arts in Theater Studies Describe your art in three words: Mixing \u00b7 Blurring \u00b7 Disappearing Your discipline: (Abstract) photography \u00b7 Ambient\/Drone music Website | Instagram Your work explores how perceptions can be altered. 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