Earth & Ashes
Earth & Ashes is all about finding our way to relate to those who are no longer among us. Confluencing the realms of the living and dead, moving forward together from this new found place.
Rocks are solid, but they leave their traces over time. Breaking into smaller pieces that roll into the riverbeds of life, eventually polished into pebbles. Without its pebbles the rock is incomplete.
Even tough, solid as rock, time breaks rock into pieces, rolling over the riverbeds, eventually softening it into pebbles.
The natural materials used in this work serve to give the person who passed this resting place in ‘earth’, as well as to pebble travel with loved ones. A new shape is given to the deceased, a new form of nature, and thus a return to that which we as humans always already were.
A person, solid as a rock in their own body, leaves behind little pieces of themself with others during their lifetime. The pieces roll through the riverbeds of life, eventually being polished into pebbles.
The natural materials used in this work serve to give the person who passed a resting place in ‘earth’, as well as a way to keep travelling with their loved ones. A new shape is given to the deceased, a new form of life, of nature, and thus a return to that which we as humans always already were.
This work is a collaboration with ceramic artist Claudia Thunnissen, she made the small pebbles blended with ashes of the ones passed away.
Material: gypsum, concrete , wood
Dimensions: approx 50 x 60 cm
Year: 2025
Price: 900 Eur