Underground Silhouettes
Pencil and Pastel on Seawhite Unbleached Recycled Paper 140gsm
Unframed
"The drawings I make arise from texts I write and words I collect. Influenced by English nature writers, I look for the words and phrases that reveal the poetry of the earth. I like to pass on these collections in drawings that form an image of a scene or action that illustrate or sometimes alienate these experiences.
These three drawings come from a thought I had on the beach where the shapes left in the sand by people who moved in the sand appeared to me as a kind of molds in which its print can appear like a positive. I imagined how bodies can leave their drawings in the ground and how in this way the body and the earth can take on each other's shapes."
Sophie Mastenbroek 2021