Tangible Transformation II

“When I look outside, I see vast areas of green turf extending to the horizon. In Friesland the lush meadows have given way to monoculture farming. But here, indoors, in this monumental image, the wealth of biodiversity is celebrated to the full. It’s no coincidence that this tapestry has been titled ‘Tangible Transformation’. This is a harvest festival, a manifesto and utopia all in one.

...Claudy Jongstra paints with loose fibers, and the cast-in daylight, which isinabundancehere[at EENWERK]from morning to evening, will continually give the work a different look. This time she opted for the primary colors of art: yellow, blue and red. The colors stem from the biodynamic flowers and plants that she grew this past summer in the greenhouse on EENWERK’s top floor. During this project, titled ‘Cycles of Growth’, safflower, coreopsis, woad, St. John’s wort, and goldenrod thrived in this sunlit space and provided the basis for this new work’s palette. In the densely packed relief of wool and silk...I think of poppies and envisage warm summer days, blue skies and fields blowing in the wind, as in a carefree pastorale. But it isn’t that. Taking a better look, I now see something entirely different. It is an exercise. An exercise in exuberance, perhaps against all odds.”