KATRIEN DE BLAUWER

Emotions have always been the driving force and main consideration in what I do and make. I am strongly drawn to the uncomfortable in human emotion: pain, sorrow, loss, desire.

I like the directness of pictures and their presence. With my condensed cuts-and-pastes I try to relate a story of my own. In doing so, I find, often unwittingly, new meanings and associations, which also has a therapeutic effect on me. It’s a process of finding my own language and listening to it.

I would like to quote Marina Abramović: “Difficult childhood problems, families, all those things, somehow become a treasure, become some kind of source of inspiration for later on.”

As my work evolves over time, there are some themes or images that reappear, for example: trees, women’s legs, hair, high heels, dresses, sea, mountains.

At this moment, I’m coming to a point where I’ve started to pay more and more attention to the symbolic meanings of these themes.