About the Artist
Maaike van Everdingen (1992) was born in the Netherlands where she studied graphic design at the University of Arts Utrecht. Her work often revolves around exploring the boundaries of traditional design conventions. She pushes the limits of typography with a deep-rooted curiosity and a passion for experimentation; Embracing the role of a design innovator, combining her technical skills with a playful and unconventional mindset to create designs that speak. For more information or questions about buying this print, please contact the Roem team.
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Luna van der Straaten - The Symbolic Real
My latest project “The Symbolic Real” is a search for and visualisation of the universality and underlying connectedness people have. For “The Symbolic Real”, I was inspired by patterns and symbols from different peoples and cultures from all over the world. From Africa, to Asia, to Scandinavia you can find similar patterns and symbols used in different forms of expression, like clothing, weaving patterns, art, in scarification and masks. During my research, I was amazed by the endless recurrence of these patterns and symbols. Mostly, because the total different cultures and people using them are spread all over the world, never even meeting each other.This phenomenon made me wonder…
About the Artist
As an artist, I try to visualize the elusive. In translating stories, complex or abstract concepts and feelings with poetic and symbolic images. These images exude an air of mysticism and universality. Consciousness, religion, spirituality, life and death and philosophy are themes and sources from which I draw and that often return in my work.My work comes into its own in analogue techniques, such as etching, different paints, inks, chalks and pencils. My materiality and experimenting while making is important. I often let myself be guided by the materials I use, and let the material tell a part of the story.