Feltscapes and Nodes

_{^{title: Feltscapes and Nodes
location: St. Gertrudeskerk, Workum, Nederland
project: Siel fan Súdwest, Musea zuidwest Friesland en Arcadia
date: 2025}}

NODES

In the jumble of this world, humans try to create order by giving names to places where people live and work. Elevated places in the landscape become landmarks; it is a human way of finding one’s way in this complex world.

Anthropogenic interventions in the landscape help to ensure that landmarks can undergo true metamorphoses. Through landscape developments, their appearance and meaning become convoluted and incomprehensible. Thus, a place, which was once a beacon in its surroundings, becomes a junction with different meanings.

Around the Frisian town of Workum, I found three such nodes; the former island Breewar, the capped landfill site Jiskepôle and the Bijenkamp, a junction of dyke structures. The nodes are made of clay mixed with wool. The heat of the firing process burns the wool out of the clay but the knotted and twisted structures are still visible.