zaterdag 29 april 2023
vrijdag 21 april 2023
Exhibition 'Birds of Paradise' summer 2022
donderdag 20 april 2023
Apocalypse
The Making of....
When the theme of the Dutch
Quilters guild 2022 Art quilt competition became known, I started thinking
about it.
At first I didn't want to participate. I didn't feel like
making a quilt. And the dimensions for 3D, 30 x 30 x 30 cm, were very small...
Sometime in January 2022
I suddenly had an idea. A 3D globe. But how do you make something like
that? Due to the lockdown, we were unable to go to the store. On the internet I
found a Styrofoam sphere at a shop for flower decoration materials. Convenient!
Exactly 30 cm, in two parts.
But how does such a thing stand? I was reminded of the globe
on such a pen, a bit slanting. A pen in it didn't seem convenient to me. So
then sawed off a piece off the bottom with a bread knife. That way I could also
work on it better. The top also went off, I joined it again with my stapler, so
that a cavity was created. The sphere consisted of two parts which in the end I assembled and also
connected with the stapler.
Oh yes it had to be a quilt...
Artist statement:
Apocalypse
Doomsday
scenario: an Apocalypse of planet earth that explodes.
Too high
concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, rainforest deforestation,
intense industry etc. lead to climate change and then more frequent and intense
natural disasters such as heat waves, wildfires, drought, floods, and storms.
Therefore:
Limits to growth!