Art tour 'Stimuli and Tingling'
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Dokter Ruttenpark 6 Sterksel |
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Art Route: Stimuli & Tingling at Kloostervelden
How do you increase the opportunity for encounters and social interaction? Placing visual art is an answer to this question. This is how the nearly two-kilometer-long, permanent art route "Prikkels en Tintelingen" was created on the former institution grounds Providentia. Three artists were inspired by this special place, its history and its residents. They created artworks based on the healing power of nature.
Artwork: The World Within
In Kloostervelden, nature and the landscape can be experienced by everyone. The green surroundings lend themselves perfectly to encounters, but at the same time also to peace, quiet and contemplation. On the south side of Kloostervelden, Will Beckers' design The World Within creates a contemplative space in an open grassland that offers shelter and will develop into a place of rest, contemplation and encounter. The Corten steel sculpture depicts a small part of a brain lobe in an enlarged manner. The "protective" inner space provides space for reflection and finding inner peace that can promote the healing process. The braided, natural inner wall depicts the constant dynamic rhythm of our thoughts. On the outside, trees grow against and over the sculpture, forming a new organic skin, as it were, as a sign of new life. The work represents the cycle of our consciousness, as an infinite, continuous process of thinking in our brains.
Artwork: Everything will bloom wherever your eye turns
Surrender to the subconscious mind is necessary for people to sleep. More and more people struggle with this surrender to sleep because we are too much "on" and often don't remember what a healthy lifestyle is. Nature can help us regain our peace of mind. In the flower garden, flora and fauna come together. In scents and colors, there is something to experience. To emphasize and reinforce this, Gijs Frieling has created a painting on the ceiling of the arbor that stands in the middle of the flower garden. The arbor is painted with a rose bush with different colored flowers and buds, on a blue background of the night. Complemented by various plants known for their relaxing effects, such as lavender, hops and chamomile.
The work is titled: Everything will bloom wherever your eye turns. It is a phrase from the song Where'er you walk by Georg Friedrich Handel, which Frieling translated. He placed the text in the outer ring of the arbor in painted letters.