Visual artist Joan van Barneveld processes deep romantic longings within popular culture. In the absence of people a feedback of the intensity of the cultural scene is articulated through a condensed black veil staging a longed for, introverted grandeur. His earlier work energized the poetics of grunge culture. In recent series a deeper longing for an essential horizon is narrated with a wider visual perspective: blackened pictures of popular spheres, devoid of people, that allow for a more reality-based motive and open up for wider narration as diptychs and triptychs. A staying at age in rock.