Time is on my mind
A series of 5 pieces
Five days a week, I work as a planner at a secondary school, from 7am in the morning until early afternoon. After that, I go home and work in my studio. This is roughly what my working week looks like. Every day, I make a transfer from my job into making art – a balancing act between two worlds.
Having a job and making art are two very different pursuits. Therefore, the transition from one activity to the other requires some attention. How I make this transition is constantly on my mind – like some kind of ritual that I keep reshaping.
Balancing
Sometimes it helps to keep in touch with one world while I am busy in the other. On other days, the little rituals give me just that push to move from one world to another. But am I ever truly detached from one and can I devote myself fully to the other? Is there mutual influence? Not everything works perfectly every day, and sometimes the transition doesn’t work at all.
Maybe you recognise this balancing between different worlds in your own life? How do you make the transition from one to the other?
These questions and this field of tension inspired this series of five small, contrasting works. The series invites us to reflect on the transitional moments in our own lives – how do we navigate between the worlds we live in?
