Josefien Alkema
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Website
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Experience as an (art) teacher
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Also makes commissioned work
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Josefien Alkema
I am captured by the intangible and immaterial. A mystical experience; when I am outside I feel one with nature. This experience is the inspiration for my work. everyday things can be seen with different eyes. An image can connect the invisible with the visible, the moment with infinity.
In recent works I use old drawings to make new works of art. Collages and small sculptures; upcycling unfinished works, using a collection of years that was just waiting in a drawer. The time put into these works not wasted, but invested into something new, creating extra condensed and intense collages.
The structures of the old drawings are like ready-made colors and lines in my own handwriting. The old drawings are glued together and cut off again, making layers visible, like layers of an excavated mound or quarry; the deeper layers, physical, but in the work also immaterial and symbolic. The layers show time; the accumulation of times, reuse of drawings, even my own history as an artist is compressed in them. Time is a space, just like the landscape.