The tension between “Wonder” and “Expectation” is essential in the work and the creation process of Stefaan Beeckaert. This tension is also the world of the so-called “Ridgeriders” (Beeckaert writes it as “Ridzjraides”). People who reconciliate on the one hand the wonder as pure life source, and on the other hand, the expectation, as a life taker. The work presented, is a kind of vision of the “life of the Ridzjraides”. The Photos are testimonials of the raw, pure form of surprise, the inspiration, faith. The silkscreen prints on canvas; his notes, concerns and conclusions, attempts to the faith and the inspiration to personally handle. In many of the work  the wonder is central, wonder as contact, driving force, virtue and spirituality…