VIEW IN MY ROOM
Netherlands
Drawing, Pencil on Canvas
Size: 35.4 W x 27.6 H x 0.8 D in
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“This is the sea” is part of my project “To the heartland”. It is about the place where I want to be. It starts at the origin, with my father and my mother, and then follows a path, not necessarily chronologically, along many places and side roads. This could be an actual place and path, but also a place and journey that just exists in my mind and my heart. Will I ever find the place where I want to be at the location of my dreams? Or does the actual location have little to do with it? Will I ever find my place at all and will my journey in search of it and my project ever end? It is an invisible presence of indefinable melancholy and a search for something I have no memory of. It is a form of homesickness, nostalgia with a not identifiable origin. “This is the sea” is about a place where life is good. It could be a final destination of the heartland. What could be more peaceful than looking out over the sea. Just lie and watch.
Drawing:Pencil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:35.4 W x 27.6 H x 0.8 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Ships From:Netherlands.
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Netherlands
1964,Gaanderen, The Netherlands The common thread in my work is formed by the major events in my life and also in the lives of others, such as motherhood, illness and grief. How is that reflected? This thread is intertwined with the longing for the place where I want to be. A life long search starting from a feeling of nostalgia and an indefinable melancholy for something or somewhere I don't even have a memory of. My artworks are drawings with embroidery on canvas or paper. In my spatial artworks I use textiles, embroidery and other materials. Working with textiles and embroidery has been instilled in me from an early age. Still, it was not an obvious choice to use this material. I've slowly grown towards it. In the end, this became the material I prefer to work with the most. I have a love-hate relationship with time. The works I make are labour-intensive and the work process is slow. It all has to be done by hand, even though this requires a lot of patience. However this does give me the time to change the image or my idea 'during its creation'. For me embroidery means working with 'the human dimension', just like walking. At work, I'm in a bubble where time slows done. Outside of it everything is restless. Precisely because my works take so much time, there is this rush to make them faster and to make more of them. For me the trick is to be able to allow the indolence; embroidery to slow down life.
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