Vietnam: “Again, you have this repetition,” says van Bleiswijk. “This is what happens in the East when people are putting thought into something, and if they aren’t, you see it happen more naturally.” Adds van Eijk: “I don’t remember what these leaves are exactly, but this is outside a temple, so they have a symbolic value, and there’s a lot of repetition in Asian ceremonies: When someone’s died, the mourners make a kind of sound which they repeat for hours and hours like a mantra. Here, it’s very thin pieces of paper, and they curl with the wind. What I like is that all these things could be an art installation in the Western world, but here it’s just everyday life.”