Echoprints
Residency Het Domijn, Weesp, 2023
What melodies do we carry with us as humans? Do they become more vague as we grow older, or do they fade into soft echoes? Are melodies also memories? ECHOPRINTs are imprints of memories and are created through new compositions I make from these memories. I also make physical imprints on fabric from plants that strengthen these memories.
During my residency at the Domijn of Weesp, I created my first Echoprints. I painted canvases with 'biochromes' (colors derived from natural sources) from my own garden of a house I was about to leave. I also wrote a choir piece with the voices that were ringing in my head at the time. A call for peace and listening during a time when Gaza was being bombed, sounding on an extended tape loop in the exhibition space, combined with recorded sounds from beneath the ground of the residency.
Fragment of choir piece:
home on home, cease fire, sing alone, sing together
sing for trees, for their ashes,
take the seeds,
growing wild,
growing free, from oppression,
we will seed them again
with melodies even deeper
turning time around