In the landscapes of Sandra Kruisbrink (1961) there is a silence such as the one that hardly exists in our Dutch landscape that is organized over time.
She uses photos of walks in the Swiss Alps or the fjords of Scandinavia or other places far from civilization as a starting point to draw an essence, a stilled experience, or the unspeakable on paper.
Kruisbrink: “In large pigment ink prints you can follow different paths from the same starting point. You make similar choices: what would it be like if you had not taken this exit, but the previous one, if you had chosen the left instead of right at a crossroads? It's the same with drawing."
That is why Kruisbrink sometimes makes variations of the same image or she goes in all directions in a drawing and intuitively takes all the turns at the same time, so that as a viewer you almost lose your way and sense of time. “Occasionally I retrace my steps and apply a new layer to the paper, but the previous walk remains as a memory or shadow in the background.”