EXISTENTIALISM // PARTICLES // MATTER EXHIBITION
(2025)
Poetry & photography
Inspired by the speckled strokes in Van Gogh's Portrait with a Felt Hat painting, In Flow is an exploration about particles, matter, and how existence expands beyond our physical human boundaries. Channeling these ideas into poetry and photography, sparkling specks form part of the human body as a second skin, drifting off in layers through water and air, to reform into other shapes of existence.
The project was led by Common Culture along with other participating artists, featured on the Common Culture podcast. The works were exhibited at Waterlandplein in Amsterdam Noord, on digital screens across the city of Amsterdam, and during Museumnacht at the Van Gogh museum, the original source of inspiration of the works created.
In Flow
we're all made up of the same matter
millions of different parts
coming together harmoniously
constantly in flow
changing, morphing,
returning to the same place
but different
as our ancestors
and our future children will be
as our neighbors and enemies are
as our minds disintegrate
and thousands of years later
new fruits are planted in our fertile soil
we will be once again
in the same place but different
