An inland soul at sea

by Sen McGlinn and Sonja van Kerkhoff, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008

Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff

  Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff

  Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff



Each of the 19 resin forms is approximately
30 x 20 x 10 cm.
For sale as a group of 15 + cd for 1900 euros. For sale per object + cd, 250 euros


The seven minute soundscape that accompanies these hanging forms, incorporates music by Ben Koen & Joe Fiedler (from the "Reliance" cd) (U.S.A.), and by Brenda Liddiard and Mark Laurent (from their "Stations of the Cross" cd) (New Zealand).

The phrase "an inland soul at sea" comes from a poem by the American Emily Dickinson.

19 boat-like forms suspended in crocheted nets hang like a fleet of floating forms. Each 'boat-form' is a differing shade of translucence and is prism-like, bending and distorting the light. When hung inside they are lit from underneath so shadows are created on the walls and ceiling.

The materials are nylon cord (length about 2 metres) and cast resin forms (each is about 50 cm in the longest dimension and each weighs about 200 grams.


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Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff
An inland soul at sea, at the Performances Conditionelles Festival, 2003, in Taller, France.


Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff


Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff


Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff


Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff


detail of an installation by Sonja van Kerkhoff  
Detail: One of the hanging forms in the 2004
exhibition Oceania, in Terpkerk (Terp Church),
Urmond, The Netherlands.

Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff
Above: An inland soul at sea, at the Performances Conditionelles Festival in Taller, France.

Shown

2008    Threads of the Day   Leids Wevershuis, Leiden Museum of Weaving, Leiden, The Netherlands.

2005Grounds for Designs   Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, London, U.K.

2005Far Near Neighbours XX Sarajevo Winter Festival, Galerija Novi Hram (New Temple Gallery), , Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina.

2004Nine Dragon Heads
Environment Arts Festival
  Cheong-Ju City Art Gallery, South Korea.

2004Oceania, solo show, Terpkerk, Urmond, Limburg, The Netherlands.br />
2003Performances Conditionelles arts festival, Taller, France.


Exhibited in during the 9 Dragonheads Environments Arts Festival,
Cheong-Ju City Art Gallery, South Korea. April 2004.

Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff
The two sculptures on the wall are by other artists.
The objects swayed when walked under and so did the shadows.

Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff
Wood sculpture by Christophe Doucet, France.

Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff

Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff


Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff

Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff


detail of an installation by Sonja van Kerkhoff
Installation in Oceania, 2004. View the rest of this image (61 kb)
Left to right underneath: Between you and me (mask); A Tangled Tale; Found Objects (objects in deep frame); In You I Have Treasured... (lithograph and silkscreen print); Found Objects (lithograph and silkscreen print)


detail of an installation by Sonja van Kerkhoff


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While this work was a starting point for the show - a moment for meditation - there is no particular viewing point. These boats forms can also be seen as suspended islands.


Details of An inland soul at sea, an installation of hanging objects and a soundscape in the exhibition Oceania, 2004.

detail of an installation by Sonja van Kerkhoff
Photo: Leo Klein, The Netherlands.

Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff

Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff
Installed in March 2003.
Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff
Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff

Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff
Below, Cheong-Ju City Art Gallery, South Korea.
Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff
The lighting coloured the work.

Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff
16 of them arranged on the floor of the Cheong-Ju City Art Gallery before hanging them.



Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff
New Temple Gallery, XX Sarajevo Winter Festival, 2005, Bosnia-Herzegovina.


Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff

Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff
In the grounds of the MoDa (Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture), London, U.K., April-July 2005.

Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff


2008, Wevershuis exhibition, Leiden

In Threads of the Day, Museum of Weaving, Leiden, 2008

Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff
Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff


2008, Wevershuis exhibition, Leiden

Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff



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