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Something about my work

As a child I was already fascinated by the purity and the almost weightlessness quality of the underwater world.
Later this fascination shifted to the apparent primitive and transparant character of the micro-organisms.

During a working period at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, I have tried to express this fascination by moulding glass in ceramic ovens. 
I put sheets of glass on an identical mould and used different techniques, such as bending, stretching and fusing.
As a result of this, different forms emerged from the same origine, varying/mutating among themselves.

Presentation: MUTATION PROCESS - State Academy of Fine Arts, Amsterdam

Transparency and light lead to the burning in of luminous pigments in glass and the building of an installation in which sound and light came together.
Light reacted to sound and illuminates the reflecting glass objects in the (deep sea) installation.
Titeled: EATING THE LIGHT

Presentation: LIGHT AND BUILDING - Frankfurter Messe

During a work period at the European Ceramic Workcentre, I applied myself to the combination (symbiosis) of ceramic and glass, where I let the ceramic and the glass to bond in the oven.
The glass bowed like a membrane over the ceramic form.
As a result, jelly-fish like forms emerged, with a colourful ceramic body enclosed by the glass membrane.
Titled: MEDUSA, CTENOPHORA.

Presentation: LOVE OF NEPTUNE - Princessehof, Leeuwarden

Glass-blower Bernard Heesen blew some forms for me, whose shape I determined by making the silicon moulds.
These blown glass objects I combined with silicon, glass-tubes, and glass-pearls and presented them in fish-tanks.
Titled: PEROPHORA, GLASSPONS

Presentation: FEAR OF DEPTS - Galery Artkitchen, Amsterdam

During the periode that I had no oven at my disposal, I applied myself to the cold processing of glass.
With the jelly-fish forms as premises, I calculated all peaces beforehand and build it like a three dimensional mosaic with silicon as an elastic connection.
Because of the silicon, the inflexible glass object became flexible.
Out of the fact that many deepsea jelly-fish are luminous, I have put fluorescent lamps inside.
Titles: LUMEN HYDRA, HYDRA

Presentation: BERNADINE DE NEEVE PRICE
Jan van der Togt museum, Amstelveen.

During a second work period at the European Ceramic Workcentre I concentrated on the structure and construction of a coral (reef).
I started with moulds with a certain patern/rhytm.
The forms that came out of these moulds I used as material to build branches like in a coral-reef.
With bright glaze I represented the blaze of colours of the coral.
Titles: FIRE-CORAL, MODULE

Presentation: STRUCTURES - Galery Artkitchen, Amsterdam

Janine C. Schimkat

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