I AM RATTY
reference to Salvador Dali's statement
"I don't do drugs, I am drugs"
Year: 2017
Photo (*)
WOOL, SILK, RAT-TAIL (2
Year: 2019
Material: wool, silk, rat-tail, wood
Dimensions: 33 x 33 cm
WOOL, SILK, RAT-TAIL (1
Year: 2018
Material: wool, silk, rat-tail, wood
Dimensions: 33 x 33 cm
WOOL, SILK, RAT-TAIL
Year: 2017
Material: wool, silk, dead rat with loose tail, wooden frame, weave tools
Dimensions frame: 33 x 33 cm
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STROKE
shooting at a handwoven fabric to connect the pink and the black
Year: 2018
Material: black wool, pink cotton
Dimensions: 145x172 cm
Stroke kan vertaald worden met zowel ‘aaien’ als ‘een slag’.
STROKE
hand woven and hand shut wall piece (detail)
Year: 2018
Material: wool, cotton
Dimensions: 145 x 172 cm
6 hours, 12 minutes and 36 seconds
MULL
Year: 2018
Think six hours before you judge and it all turned up side down.
(tweet, 2019)
At the coastline of Ardalanish, on the Isle of Mull
in Scotland, the largest tidal range in 2018 is 4,27 meter.
This tidal range is woven in Ardalanish
and presented on Vlieland during Into the Great Wide Open 2018.
transforming the Dutch flag into the Russian flag
Year: 2017
Material: rewoven unravelled Dutch flag
photo: Ilya Rabinovich
Sanne Vaassen, a Dutch artist, got in touch with me for her flag project. In her project she questions what a country now a days is. Sanne gave me (and other Dutch weavers) yarns: she had taken the actual Dutch flag and deconstructed it yarn by yarn. The weaver is supposed to use these yarns and re-make a flag with his/her imprint and the use of his/her craftsmanship. In this way, the artist turns a symbol of a nation into a platform for an individual. What I wanted to express is the possibility of change, whether you like it or not.
WHAT DOES IT NEED TO CROSS A BORDER?
wall pieces
Year: 2014-2016
Material: yarn 80% wool or cotton (weft), 20% diverse (warp)
Technique: Hand woven, satin weave, irregular warp
Dimensions: 150 x 300 cm
mountains - SHIKOKU
wall pieces
A series of wall pieces made after a cycling tour on Shikoku, a Japanese mountainous island.
The lighter the blue, the more air in between me and the mountain, the longer the cycling.
Year: 2016
Material: wool
Technique: hand woven, plain and twill weave
Dimensions: 150 x 250 cm
Since my final exam at the Rietveldacademie I am working on skirts.
I believe that the world around me starts at my navel and ends somewhere at the other side of the globe. A long skirt represents my surroundings. After weaving the fabric I finish the surface with a steelbrush. By brushing the backside shows on the front, both layers intermingle, as landscapes.
The skirts carry names like Mongolia, Bambam (Congo), Mirzapur and Fool’s Gold.
Year: 2004-ungoing
Material: yarn 80% wool (weft), 20% diverse (warp) + lining
Technique: Hand woven, satin weave, steel brush treatment, embroidery
Dimensions: waist 86 cm, length 110 cm
NO FRICTION NO BORDER
wall piece
Year: 2009
Material: 80% wool (weft) 20% diverse (warp)
Technique: Hand woven, steelbrush treatment, rough embroidery
Dimensions: 155 x 300 cm
window piece
Year: 2013
Material: cotton and synthetics
Technique: hand woven, double weave
Dimensions: 250 x 150 cm