TJITSKE OOSTERHOLT

My work derives from the concept of material thinking, where the intuitive and experimental interaction with matter comes prior to linguistic thought. I'm interested in the transience of our natural world, and how we as human beings relate to, experience and perceive this - in a practical sense as physical entities who ourselves are part of this natural world and are submissive to a constant flux, and in a philosophical sense as a way of meaning making of the ever-changing world around us... "I believe the power of art lies in its non-linguistic forms: in the way you can think with and through material by means of...