This will be the last entry on this blog. Dymph has returned to the US, and I am traveling as well. Thank you for reading this blog. On my 'portfolio' page you can see more images and read about the background of this project.
Following are a selection of the images from the exhibition and a poem by Frank Eerhart, shared by my neighbor, written on a print by Dymph, freely translated:
"boulder"
it was big, it was rock, from up high, it looked proudly into the valley, but it broke, it fell, and a stream took it to the ocean, it was made round, by the sand, became a boulder, on the beach, by the ocean
"poem - kei"
"lezenaar", found cart, found and donated objects, cardboard, canvas, clay objects [ray] "VERY abridged ATLAS of the Wageningse Berg" [ray]
"Wageningse Berg", pu-foam, charcoal [ray] "kei worden", video of performing "becoming boulder" [ray]
These are some of Dymph's works. She did not name them. She used found objects and materials, glue, sand, paint, fabric, paper. The 2-D works are on paper with india ink and inks made by her.
Some pages from my ATLAS "After having lived as a migrating boulder for many years, I've settled, for now, on the Wageningse Berg. In this VERY abridged ATLAS I present some of the places on the Berg that have my interest.
"hollow roads" often occur on the edges of push-moraine. The Wageningen hollow road was part of a pre-historic route. Length: 200 meters, average gradient: 9.1%, steepest gradient 11.4%, difference in altitude: 20 meters.
On the Berg are 11 visible burial mounds, the oldest dating from 2.500 BC. Burial gifts show that these people traded with others in an area as large as present-day Europe.
There are two more burial places: the Jewish burial grounds, established in 1668, closed in 1929, restaured and designated a monument in 1987. The grave of the family Constant de Rebecque, established in 1894 when the founder of the country estate "Belmonte" had died.