Interlinie
2012
“Walking through the herd of sheep is like wading through water - the sea of wool opens, lets you through as the animals disperse, and closes the hole you caused behind”
Cecile Kruip, wool artist and long standing collaborator and friend of the Herders van Balloo
In the night of 27-28 october 2011 my mother’s and her partner’s sheep farm, of Het Balloërveld, in Drenthe, the Netherlands, burnt down. In the aftermath, the grief was shared among the community the farm and the adjacent parc has long been a vital part of. As people came to visit the site, I invited them to build temporary monuments using remnants of the burnt down farm and elements of its natural surroundings, this way finding a temporary physical expression of their grief.
2012
“Walking through the herd of sheep is like wading through water - the sea of wool opens, lets you through as the animals disperse, and closes the hole you caused behind”
Cecile Kruip, wool artist and long standing collaborator and friend of the Herders van Balloo
In the night of 27-28 october 2011 my mother’s and her partner’s sheep farm, of Het Balloërveld, in Drenthe, the Netherlands, burnt down. In the aftermath, the grief was shared among the community the farm and the adjacent parc has long been a vital part of. As people came to visit the site, I invited them to build temporary monuments using remnants of the burnt down farm and elements of its natural surroundings, this way finding a temporary physical expression of their grief.
