In the paintings, drawings, riso prints and mixed media works by Mirjam Hagoort, contrasts in form and colour, rhythm and proportions - often derived from urban architecture - always play an important role.
In her recent works, now on display in her solo exhibition in Goes, these visual elements are also unmistakably present.
What is new is that her basic material consists of textiles from her immediate (very personal) surroundings.
When clearing out her parental home, she found the cheerfully striped tent that once accommodated the seating area. Throwing it away was not an option.
She tore the tent into strips and it now forms the basis of all her compositions in orange and green.
The comfort of a tent: melancholy is nipped in the bud by light-footed fabric.
The recovered coat and summer dress also gave rise to new projects.
The coat was filleted with skin and hair to its essence: a map of faded buildings.
And then a woven landscape of shreds of sleeve and lining in more colours and buttons than imagined. The summer dress has now been sublimated into an exact rectangle of strikingly many structures and shades of white.
Warp and weft, new and old are interwoven.
The work becomes both more personal and more universal.