Reconnect

By Maria Kuipers 2018

Dimensions
80 x 30

Adversity into opportunity. Recently I had 2 eye operations and my vision has been impaired a for a few months. I turned this could be adversity into opportunity. So reconnecting with ideas and thoughts never developed, some have been documented in my sketchbook, others in my memory. Once I embarked on this project I was so liberated, having fun with such experimental ways of playing with mixed media.

Maria Kuipers

'Thrust' has strong structural elements with architectural associations, verticals, horizontals, squares and rectangles . They can be reminiscent of internal and external walls and rooms, places and spaces linked with a passage, a portal, a doorway. And the sensitive surface qualities create textures and feeling alluding to archaeology and limitless time and space, and drawn or incised lines and distressed areas of scratching are like well trodden paths. Within these spaces are narratives of…