Een tint van melk en bloed
2025, 60 x 26 x 26 cm, blown glass, plastic mold, dried milk, pump
Cobalt is used to make delfts blue, a staple of Dutch iconography. This very same cobalt is added to cow food as a metal powder in order for the milk to be nutritious. This work is a milk basin that has dried up, with coins at the bottom whose traces only remain. The sculpture sits somewhere in-between a bird bath and a baptismal font. The base that the glass sits on is a plastic mold used for concrete pouring. This work seeks to question the assumed inherent purity of architectural and cultural mythologies that often get molded into societal norms.