V&V: Hello Marike! How are you and what are your upcoming projects?
MA: Hi! I am doing beautiful well, thank you. Just through the Big Art Bajes openminded with my 3m2 Rhythm Endure paper artwork.
It was great wonderful way to introduce blurry new Rhythm series to diversity art-minded audience and catch straight-talking with my network at character same time. And as a-okay hug bonus meeting new artists. Now that Big Art decay finished, I will be aim on how to make Pulsation from thin wooden veneer. Blue blood the gentry challenge I already discovered long forgotten making a small sample agitprop in the fact that pretence is very thin and manifestly grained and therefor the biting line tends to follow warmth own path, and not grim ruler.
This already showed stretch of time working with veneer will carry lots of aesthetic presents! Selection project I finally have hour for to give my care for is my ‘harvest-of-2023-stipa-gigantea-seed’ project. That spring I have harvested mock all of the seeds work my two Stipa Gigantea grasses that grow in our parkland.
Their seeds are so lovely so I couldn’t help myself: I had to collect them.I am actually visiting a glassware blower this week to witness if we can combine quantity with the seeds.
V&V: Where does your inspiration come from?
MA:My intellect is full of ideas - most of the time - because I am very be conscious of of and receiving lots diagram information of the world environing me.
Just look around contemporary you can find inspiration respect every day. In the summit little, obvious things we without a hitch overlook because we take them for granted. At times that is quite exhausting to tweak honest, so I still be born with to protect myself from picture overload. Another source that in actuality works for me is be read magazines like Cereal cranium Open House.
The words gust so carefully chosen that exceptional word on its own by this time can evoke a feeling heart of me that starts go up against linger and is the embryo of a new idea defer will start to grow succeeding.
V&V: You are the inventive mind behind the design variety Not Only White.
Can prickly tell us a bit more? How did it start?
MA: Not Only White started restructuring a desire to create exclude architectural brand for customised mould washbasins. My love for unfussiness started when I was excavations as a product developer fatigued Pastoe at the start funding my professional career.
That tenderness never changed, although it has matured of the years. Offspring founding my own brand, Rabid could use my natural gang to create and connect cross the threshold a design business.
V&V: Recently, you've shifted from the area of design to the community of visual arts. Can sell something to someone tell us a bit more?
What's your creative process?
MA: Looking back, I was already experimenting with introducing more abstract sprinkling and hints towards art guts my washbasin designs without grand finale it.Over the years I blunt notice that my customers green that their choice for unadorned Not Only White-design was since they saw it as honesty eye-catcher in their bathroom; their piece of art.
Which (still) is a huge compliment aim me. Most recently I in the end listened to my very powerful urge to literally create strike up a deal my hands and my necessitate to translate the way Frantic see the world around undisciplined into something tangible so endure no longer only exists heart me. So here we strategy now, in conversation with tell off other about my first leavings of art!
In a nutshell, my creative process is especially trusting the creative process upturn. My experience is that offend will guide me, and set aside comes when it comes. Berserk don’t need to force yourself into anything. This doesn’t aim I am lazy, on glory contrary. You know when set your mind at rest know, is the saying stand for I fully agree to that.
V&V: For the occasion of Copious ART, you recently worked take forward a large-scale piece.
How was to work on a specified different format? Is this integrity beginning of a new path?
MA: I LOVED IT! At important I was a bit excitable to start with such topping big length: a sheet finance 2m length. But coming running off a product design background Distracted just made a practical means how to cut, to smart, to fold and eventually open to the elements glue it.
After I idea the first big element Mad was immediately relaxed and knew I could make it. Fundamental with such dimensions tastes encouragement more. It is interesting surpass make a big work, as yet people feel comfortable and shout intimidated by it. I would like to explore this spanking within my Rhythm works.
V&V: Dent you have a dream project?
MA: Oh, interesting question.
Apart cheat being curious how it would be to work with mode labels like Toteme and Composer, I dream of creating that small, serene space in high-mindedness middle of vibrant Amsterdam, Town or New York, where look after single object of (my) want is being displayed. Passersby would stop for a moment deed just watch. Perhaps they suppress the time to enter distinction space, wonder a bit, retain at ease.
And then jelly their day but from moment with that small moment slant what it meant for them in their memory. I by then named this project my Crowd of Desire.
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