Chelsea Groenhuijzen
I believe that our relationships with each other, the natural world and the objects that we create are not limited to the physical. The benefits and costs of existing are not always quantifiable. Through my work I explore these tangled relationships by examining the interactions between materials in time and place. How an object is made, who made it, what materials where used and how they were sourced are important to me. How objects exist in a space and change over time are taken into consideration. Found objects are often used in my work. Their materials can be naturally occurring or created by humans. These ‘worthless’ found objects are often mixed with objects of ‘value’, such as refined metallic forms.
2020 has been a challenging year and full of change and fear. Through my work In The Web I examined my feelings of uncertainty and used the making process to better understand my interactions with nature, my place in it, and the time in which I exist. This work is a physical representation of the feeling of walking under spider webs and being tangled in and weighed down by them everyday.
In The WebSilver, 2020
Bone, wood, iron, steel, silk, cotton, glue, plastic