Between Worlds - News from the Creative Community: First Online Edition, 24th September 2017
A Word from the Founder and Editor-in-Chief:
The Act of Creation, or: Zen in the Art of Allowing an Act of Creating
Dear Reader,
I would like to warmly welcome you to our first online edition of BETWEEN WORLDS - News from the Creative Community.
We just returned from the London Design Fair, and it was a wonderful occasion to meet the brave and inspired and often intuitive creative minds and hands behind the many precious works of craft and arts.
The most gifted people are often the most humble ones as a person, too, and find it hard to even describe their perspective and role, and would describe their work neither as art nor as design by intent but as an act of creating 'that came from somewhere' and which they allowed to pass through them as the instrument and through their movements of the hands and tools.
We very much hope that you enjoy the encounters with the creations and creative minds, who are featured in this edition. In the next one, we will feature various techniques and old traditional craft skills turned into new work in more depths.
BETWEEN WORLDS - News from the Creative Community wants to encourage creative people and those, who support them, to exchange, collaborate, and explore as an international community on the same wavelength.
The artworks and products reach out far beyond those, who enjoy looking at them or experiencing them (or buying them). They are also a bridge between worlds and beyond language barriers and can bring a lot of healing and approaches to balance and harmony in many other unseen ways.
The Creative Community is an invaluable entity to further peace and understanding and to build bridges between cultures. Today I learnt that in the Netherlands people kiss three times on the cheeks or give you a hug for a farewell, in Hungary it is twice, and where I come from in Westfalia, you must eat two sacks of salt first with the person you got to know - or so folklore says.
You can probably guess that I won't do that to you - I grew up near the Dutch border, so, let's say a hig is fine for a start!
Let us know your thoughts and send us your work and questions.
Have a wonderful Autumn!
Yours truly,
Countess Sigrid von Galen
Founder and Editor-in-Chief,
Between Worlds - News from the Creative Community
London 24th September 2017
The Act of Creation, or: Zen in the Art of Allowing an Act of Creating,
Reflections
By Sigrid Countess von Galen
The Act of Creation, or: Zen in the Art of Allowing an Act of Creating to flow into the Form and Shape of an Object, is reflected in the way an object still breathes from the touch and the signature movements of the person, who conceived intuitively an idea or word or shape or melody as a starting point and then lets the good force that gave him the light of inspiration take over and speak through the creative process. It is like serving an unknown purpose and helping to bring out a truth and an authentic original thought line.
The work featured in this edition, has been conceived by the creative men and women, who all described themselves and were represented by supporters of their work as being servants to on the one hand the idea that passes through them but also to the traditional values and methods of craft and arts combined and that become objects of either useful purposes for various occasions or collections, whilst others are simply encouraging engagement, dialogue, communication and tease the senses.
Another creative force is Dutch artist Sabine Struycken with her Royal Blue Delft Apple Collection. Her ideas bring me back to my childhood days spent at leadt once a month in Holland, seeing those beautiful blue on white hand painted tiles and delicate sculptures, or cups, plates and saucers and bowls from bone china or on pottery.
Sabine Struycken wants to recapture and bring back nostalgia and combine them with a modern twist but also timeless element. Whereas Delft blue patterns normally cover the entire object and are applied symmetrically, Sabine's apples are painted asymmetrically.
Some of the apples have stems from a Brazilian wood, others are gold-plated mini sculptures by Samuel Dejong, as symbols of our ecosystem.
The apples are cost intensive and hence items of luxury but they can be seen in many exhibitions and bring joy to the viewer.
The third artist in this edition is Lizan Freijsen, with her theme 'The Living Surface'. Lizan said instantly: 'I am more artist than designer but I am an outsider in both worlds. The Design Fair is a good place to communicate, as people here are more open towards my work than art places.' Lizan is very dedicated to an old tufting technique and other traditional methods that she has developed further and many of her carpets and wall hanging objects are made by a six thread hand-held machine. (We will hear more about her technique and of the above crafts in the next edition in more depth!) Lizan is collaborating with Dutch and international galleries and museums to promote the revival of old craft with new methods.
She uses photography of water stains, mould and lichens for recreating them with wool as carpets that look at first sight often as semi-precious gem slices.
Let the Origami unfold and suddenly, there is a plate, a cup and a lamp shade with a whole story told...
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