Artworks & Poetry – Janine Seelen

META

do we really know
what we feel?

do we recognize networks
from experience?

are we affected
because we are tolerant?
or
do we show concern
through tolerance?

are we able to realize consequences
from our decision making
or
follow our decision making
implemented consequences?

do we trust
our intuition?

do we love nature
and earth enough?

do we have enough discipline
to work on the long term goal?

am I present?

Zones – Reclaiming Space

Our surrounding which we generally call space is being tested. Our democratic world order is faltering, and autocratic currents threaten our individual freedom. Since the beginning of the Corona pandemic this feeling is being reinforced as we live between lock down, quarantine and free space.
More than ever, one needs to experience and to free up new space to entitle own themes to develop. A room, a gap, a separation, a mark – we need space to survive.
In my works I light up and deal with the space that surrounds me in relation to time and transience. They are a request to demand and reclaim individual space which is being enhanced by the interaction between my paintings and my poetry. It is my intention to be thought-provoking regarding one’s own meaning and part in the space that is surrounding us.