Agree to disagree
When I thought about which prompt to choose I came across the word Compromise. Looking at our overall theme Community it seemed a good prompt. Every community only functions when there is compromise. As every democracy only functions with compromises. It’s a matter of giving and taking. The world nowadays
It’s all connected
The last year was a tough year for me. It took me a while to catch up with all the prompts. Browsing through all of my photos I came to the conclusion that I forgot to publish one: the one belonging to the prompt Ecosystems. My idea about ecosystems was
The new prompt, Compromise
It is obvious that the world we live in today is kind of different than the world we used to know. The virus, the climate, populism, the American elections, everything is changing the world. But, apart from this all, I noticed that the world around me is less tolerant. Social
Reproductive Isolation
Without any form of consultation or talking about the subject Isolation, my guest artist Elfriede Grooten and I choose the same starting point for our elaboration of the theme, The Darwin Finches of the Galapagos isles. You can imagine our surprise when we found out. At that time Elfriede already
Check
When writing my latest blogpost for Cloth in Common I came across the site of a museum in Antwerp I once visited, Museum Planing-Moretus. A printing office and house of more than 400 years old. I realized that fake news, perversion of the truth, explaining the facts differently, etc, is
Media centuries ago
A few years ago I visited Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp. A beautifully restored house and printing house. They present the printing process from start to finish. A huge collection of manuscripts, lead type of fonts, woodcut printing blocks, very old printing presses, all situated in a magnificent property. A place
No green without water
Due to all kind of climate issues, the role of water is more and more important in the world. Sea levels are rising and as a result of that more and more soil is salinizing. In some areas in the world fresh water is becoming scarce. But fresh water is
Creating green
Recently I moved to a new house. At least, it was new for me. But it was also someone else’s old house with their old garden. And since green spaces need a green thumb I guess that’s not what they had. Because all of the green present was artificial grass.
Sandra van Velzen
Sandra van Velzen Tiel, the Netherlands I am a textile and mixed media artist from the Netherlands. I create both abstract and pictorial quilts. The design of my work is sometimes driven by the theme of an (international) contest, sometimes by the theme of the art groups I am part
My new neighborhood is not only also my old neighborhood
Due to a lot of circumstances in my life I had to move to a new home. The new home is about 750 meter from my old home. So I stil live in the same neighborhood. The part of town I live in is quit new. When I moved to
New York VI
In Europe the European Union is trying to convince us all that we all are one Europe. Trying to believe that I interpreted the International theme as ‘abroad of Europe’. Since I took care of my multiple disabled child I was never able to travel by plane or very far