2022 → THE THING
Sometimes I think of inborn creativity as a wild beast, a monster on the loose. As an art educator, nowhere is this more apparent than in young children; so I curated a project to try a personify this “beast”. THE THING saw over twenty kids freely make a huge sculpture from leftover materials that local artists had contributed. It was a vibrant and colorful event that saw parents and caregivers taking part in an art-related activity they would otherwise not have done, in an artist-initiative they would likely not have visited otherwise, even involving people from more closed-off communities such as Schilderswijk. It functioned both as a community event, and then later a fine art exhibition.
[Exhibition “THE THING”, in collaboration with Trixie, The Hague, 2022]