• One of the great masters of modern time is French artist Claude Verlinde. In his paintings, different realities and levels of consciousness coexist.
• Fantastic metaphors, sometimes crossing into the grotesque, produce images easily remembered.
• In the painting La Nuit, a sleeping girl's two worlds meet. There is an interchange of both realities.
• Verlinde's paintings like L'espace-Temps (Time-Space), Passion Disparue (Missing Passion) and – particularly – Hiver (Winter) are constructed from fragments or scraps of natural phenomena such as hills and mountains.

Zipped Land works on two levels:

On the first level, a tractor-like machine is moving across an uneven field and leaving a furrow. A flock of birds is circling in the distance, anticipating worms that may appear in the upturned turf.

On the second level, upon closer inspection, there are strange swells on either side of the path made by the tractor. Their texture is so smooth that they look as if they were not composed of rough soil but of pure silk! There is a curious pattern – like a shirt pattern – that emerges in the wake of the tractor.

So, alike and different: an opened shirt and a field uncovered, a rumbling tractor and a small zipper. These elements swap places in our perception to form another reality, or a new artifact.