Aliki van der Kruijs

Collective drawing waterstories as part of the traveling residency ‘Ukiyo — The Water Way’.

Image from a field research in which a plot of land in the Betuwe area (NL) is visited a year round to sense its tones, rhythms and cycles.

studio shot Jan van Eyck Academie

Colour meditation perfomance at Jan van Eyck Academie

During last summer solstice 21th June I hosted a ritual to celebrate the sun. Together with sun-loving friends we started at 5:32 to change the curtains in the auditorium @janvaneyckacademie . This gesture reveals the imprint of 7 years of sunlight and is now giving the auditorium a more soft and subtle look.

Limestone carpet for contemplative space during of Jan van Eyck Academie residency

One centimeter of marl is — on an average — a compression of 1000 year material and time. This project investigates the notion of scale and time in the formation of the Earth. A tapestry is developed that addresses the industrial mining of the ENCI open-pit-quarry in Maastricht, The Netherlands. The ENCI excavated in 100 year time a sedimentation process of ±70 million year that formed a combination of marl (limestone) and flintstone

Textile installation displaying colours of the sky icw Jos Klarenbeek

Textile installation displaying colours of the sky icw Jos Klarenbeek

Textile register of rain fall at a specific location. With the prevalent rains in the Netherlands and its history of struggling with the elements, rain is deeply rooted in Dutch culture. I questioned what it would be like to capture the experience of rain fall on textile, so it becomes possible to ‘wear the weather’. For this I developed my own technique ‘pluviagraphy’; photographic recordings of rain precipitation on textiles with a film coating that is sensitive to water.

Woven book about the Jungfrau-Aletsch glacier in Swiss

Gate for residential building Square, Amsterdam in collaboration with architect Adriaan Aarnoudse.

Textile objects with architectual qualitys to distributes light more evenly through space

At the moment of the print event the VU Hortus was listed to be closed in the coming year so the present collection of plants would move. I mapped a selection of the plants by using the (artificial) rain of the greenhouse to imprint leaves with filmed textile. The visual descriptions of the plants is made by the plants themselves; Botanography.

At the moment of the print event the VU Hortus was listed to be closed in the coming year so the present collection of plants would move. I mapped a selection of the plants by using the (artificial) rain of the greenhouse to imprint leaves with filmed textile. The visual descriptions of the plants is made by the plants themselves; Botanography.

Ongoing project. Textile register of rain fall at a specific location.