Imagine whistling is a universal language
People of the Wind is my research project integrating ceramic, text, and field study birdwatching to explore fragility, memory, and adaptation in relation to environment and perception. The works function as a vessel of recollection, using observed avian behaviours as narrative devices.
Through lyrical and speculative storytelling, birds become counterparts and mirrors of human experience, inviting the viewer into a space of contemplation.
The pond is a site of gathering. Scattered texts encourage a non-linear, iterative reading, allowing meaning to emerge through movement and encounter. Gestural “delivering hands” and a tree with roots represent marrow carved memory of avian species; they evoke the invisible inheritance through which life sustains itself.
The seven daisies reference the literary work of Farid ud-Din Attar’s The Conference of the Birds. The journey through the Seven Valleys, the act of seeking, ultimately becomes a path toward discovery of the self.
Vergeet niet in the checken! exhibition, curator Marlene Deutinger.
This work was supported by CBK Rotterdam I&V + Projectbijdrage and the Mondriaan Fund Residency Grant.
They hurry for nothing and everything is established.
