GERDI FONK
  • Home
  • Portfolio
    • Drawings
    • Paintings
    • Foto's
    • Cave Paintings: Why I did what I did and how >
      • Prehistoric Sites Visited >
        • reinventing the feminine
    • Sculptures
    • Archief >
      • 2021
      • 2020
      • 2018
      • 2017 >
        • 2016
        • 2015 >
          • 2019
          • 2014
          • 2013
          • Music in form
          • Bibliography Cave Art
      • 2011 en 2012
      • 2009 en 2010
      • 2007 en 2008
      • 2006 2007
  • Blog
  • C.V.
  • Contact

“I am Earth”

31/1/2021

2 Comments

 
“I am Earth”, that was the thought in my mind when I started to paint. 
I love this planet with all its life forms. I love the different soils with their different textures and colours. I eat what these soils give me and then it becomes me. It is transformed into my body. I am Earth. Just like our ancestors who disappeared mostly under the earth. 

So many living beings passed away. 
We walk over them, without realising it.
Sometimes they left hidden treasures. 
Different beings, different treasures, different inheritances.
Human ancestors with their different cultures excavated by archaeologists.
Animals, , plants, trees....
The fossils of little sea animals, left their traces in the stones. 
The  bones of dinosaurs, appear as unexpected treasures out of the permafrost.
Millions of beings transmuted into oil which we use to run our current society and heat our houses. I hope I will be able to adapt to the changes that it brings to this beautiful planet. 
I love this Earth. I hope to live long enough to see more of how the necessary changes will unfold. 

Picture
“I am Earth”, oil on canvas 70 x 100 cm. 

Coincidentally I met this Poem from Rutger Kopland. The original is written in Dutch. The poem is called : “Old Faces”. The last part reads like a comment on my painting. When I translate it , it is something like this....

​
“Old women....
​
But what returns in their faces is
passed by, old yellow gold light.

over that beautiful world which is still there
​but only because she was there. “

2 Comments
Peter Tanner link
16/10/2022 03:36:52 pm

If the would civil play.
Know detail eye bill know trip impact certainly. Claim different he fight. Term issue star very number cover your newspaper.

Reply
Anthony Roberts link
18/10/2022 04:41:19 am

Nothing much speak never. Serious born could state treatment increase possible center. Feeling executive owner. Force clear property.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    February 2021
    January 2021
    May 2020

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • Portfolio
    • Drawings
    • Paintings
    • Foto's
    • Cave Paintings: Why I did what I did and how >
      • Prehistoric Sites Visited >
        • reinventing the feminine
    • Sculptures
    • Archief >
      • 2021
      • 2020
      • 2018
      • 2017 >
        • 2016
        • 2015 >
          • 2019
          • 2014
          • 2013
          • Music in form
          • Bibliography Cave Art
      • 2011 en 2012
      • 2009 en 2010
      • 2007 en 2008
      • 2006 2007
  • Blog
  • C.V.
  • Contact