Exhibition Art Centre Silkeborg "Impressions of Nature: Paper as Memory" 

​​On which pillow do you sleep

 

HOME, LOVE, WAR, a triptych

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This is where memories are made, a home.

A construction drawing of a residential building from 1968 was used, with an upgrade in 2003. In the 60s, just like now, there was a housing shortage, the city of Groningen built various neighborhoods, including the drawn residential building.

A house is a prerequisite for being able to shape your life. A place where you can lay your head on a pillow to rest from the daily worries and make new memories while sleeping.

 

HOME, a home decoration trend that started around 2010 and is now pretty much gone. You saw these letters everywhere in interiors, in the garden and in hotels. Often in combination with the word LOVE. They are still available, with the appearance adapted to the latest craze. The promotion in webshops is: for a cozy home. As if it has to enforce that or is it an incantation/wishful thinking?

Is it an empty slogan?

And is home a safe place?

My addition: WAR, a word that invades our home either in your relationship or through images or in real life. But also just like HOME and LOVE is subject to inflation.

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Materials: A combination of old and new tracing paper filled with air and breath. Pillowcase: Two constructions drawing on tracing paper of a residential building in the city of Groningen from 1968, one construction drawing of the update of a residential building in 2003.

Pillow: new tracing paper

Filling: air and a little breath of my own

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​Technique: "Cozy" font selected in the right size, made a template of it and used it for the cutouts in the construction drawing. Hand cut and glued with bookbinder's glue tracing paper

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Art Centre Silkeborg Bad

"Impressions of Nature: Paper as Memory"

February 7, 2026 — May 25, 2026