Letters of the Living

by Sonja van Kerkhoff, 1996
19 Batik flags along one kilometre of terrain during the Oerol Festival, Terschelling

Letters of the Living,
an installation of 19 flags, at the 1996 Oerol arts festival, Terschelling, The Netherlands.

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Outdoor works

• Fruit, six hang cast resin forms, 2006.
• Nga Hau e Wha (The Four Winds/Breaths), metal sculpture, 2004.
• Generating Plant, custom-made birdhouse form, 2004.
• The Wedding, intervention/installation during the 9 Dragonheads festival, 2004.
• Inland Soul at Sea, 19 hanging forms, 2003.
• Colonising Oxford, performances and installations on the streets, 2002.
• Fruits of the Earth, installation/intervention, 2003.
• With fire we test the gold and with gold we test our servants, wooden sculpture at a Sculpture Symposium in a park in Northern Romania, 2003.
• Parking Spaces for Important Visitors, relief painted panels, 2001.
• Inspiration, paintings on shaped canvas laid on the floor, 2001.
• Just pour les oiseaux (Strictly for the birds), installations and performances during a walk through a forest setting led by a guide, 2001.
• Onder vier ogen (Between you and me) , mask-forms hung on trees, with texts and images in the orifices, 2001.
• Dans le jardin des beaux arts, 19 snail forms, (in various locations), 2000-2006.
• The Living Creature, performances in a rose garden in a public park in London, 1999.
• Change is a Law of Nature, 1996, performances on the streets, in Hull and London, U.K. (repeated in other locations in 2001, 2002, and 2004).
• Memorials, ceramic tiles laid into the earth, 1996-2001.
• Te Koru Iwa, fire drawing at the Oerol Arts Festival, The Netherlands, 1996.
• Letters van de Levende :: Letters of the Living, 19 batiked flags, 1996.