This year is an anniversary year for the Renkum Art Route. The art route is celebrating its 25th anniversary! To celebrate this, all kinds of art-related activities will be organised throughout the month of June in the municipality.
This year, I have the honour of exhibiting my artworks in Henk’s pluktuin, a beautiful spot next to the Oude Kerk in Oosterbeek. That works out well, because the theme of my work this year was “humans as part of nature”. How wonderful it is when your work can be exhibited in nature!
I I asked Daan van Oort, a photographer from Oosterbeek, to take some photos of “the lady” in my studio. What a wonderful morning it was, working together to get the photos just right. In hindsight, I should perhaps have ironed the background, as I didn’t know beforehand that we would be using this fabric for the background.
Anyway, this woman represents our relationship with nature. The question is: is this human or nature? Or human and nature? Or human as nature? The strands running across the ground are the roots with which we are rooted in the earth. “Rooted” is also the theme of this year’s art route in Henk’s pluktuin.
This piece of work was created by sticking a mannequin onto a small table. The table was cut to shape for this purpose. The whole thing was then covered with gauze.
A thread was knotted at each intersection of the gauze. I spun and dyed most of the wool I used for this myself. Felt was also used, and some parts were crocheted and knitted.
And this is what it looks like when it is placed in the picking garden: Jacoline Zilverschoon was kind enough to take these beautiful photos:
Now I just need to find a nice spot to display it after the art route.
Vezelkunst 