tuinvolk (2023)
“I was prompted to produce a little maquette in homage to the strange pink architecture in Hieronymus Bosch’s deliciously abstruse painting, The Garden Of Earthly Delights, and likewise his swarms of small pink people. Having made my little ball of Bosch, I got thinking about raves in woodlands and the likes of the Glastonbury music festival, and I was reminded of some footage I once saw online of an alfresco raver dancing away in the dawning light – even though the music had long since stopped and everyone else was heading home. I thought about Bosch’s garden revellers and how, exhausted from their various exertions, and stoned on strawberry pips and pectin, they might commune nonetheless with the sunrise. By way of a response, I made this little film quickly and simply, with Tuinvolk being Dutch for ‘Garden Folk’.”
