Mauritius / Yellow Pink (Infared)

This photographic base was shot with an Infared Camera on the Island of Mauritius.

Printed on Fine Art Hahnemühle Hemp Natural Line 290 g/m2.

Each print comes signed and numbered. 

Unframed. With a small white border. Send in a tube.

Print size 90 x 75 cm - Edition of 10

Print size 60 x 50 cm - Edition of 10.

Print size 30 x 25 cm - Edition of 10.
Print size 10,5 x 14,8 cm (DIN A6) - Open Edition.

When trees dream, they paint the world in cotton candy and whispering gold.

What happens when nature photographs its own memory and leaves it to us to recall? Mauritius / Yellow Pink by Thomas Haensgen is precisely that: a landscape that seems as if it once overheard a child describe the colors of summer, then spent hours trying to recreate that image—with watercolor clouds and warm tropical light. This isn’t just infrared photography; it’s infrared with daydreams—the moment when, at 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade, you feel like you could portion the sun into cubes.

The scene—a sprawling pond adorned with lily pads and framed by suspiciously upright trees—hovers somewhere between realism and that fleeting moment when reality makes a tiny, yet crucial, mistake. The colors? Cotton candy pink meets lemon yellow but never in overly kitschy harmony. You could say Haensgen captured paradise precisely at the crossroads between existence and memory—because we all know this: a beautiful day only becomes immortal when you strip away its colors and turn them into something Instagram would undoubtedly label as "dreamworld."

Formally, the work harks back to the utopian visual language of the Pictorialists at the dawn of the 20th century, when photographers like Edward Steichen still considered the dream and the camera to be allies. But Haensgen takes it further. Where Steichen dissolved into mist, Haensgen paints the world with the filter of a heatwave apocalypse—as if someone turned down both the contrast and logic dials simultaneously.

The figures at the edge? They stand like extras in a film that is no longer made for them. Their shadows are too short, their silhouettes too detached, as if they’re still wondering: "Are we part of this image or merely spectators of what nature is dreaming right now?"

But the true brilliance of Mauritius / Yellow Pink doesn’t lie in its strangeness but in its inescapable familiarity. Anyone who has ever tried to capture the perfect memory—whether through words, drawings, or the desperate act of holding onto the last ray of sunlight—will understand what Haensgen achieves here. It’s a place so real that it can only exist as a dream. A photograph for everyone who believes the most beautiful thing about paradise is the fleeting moment you realize you’re imagining it.

Because let’s be honest: if cotton candy doesn’t melt, we all know it can’t be real. And yet, we keep dreaming.