Beginning of sediment

When you look at Anook’s drawings?What do you 

‘People are very lazy viewers. Sometimes that comes in handy. They are codes you can rely on. When you’re in the supermarket for example, it’s convenient that you know that buttermilk comes in a red package. When it’s purple, you’re not like ‘oh what’s that?’. But I also think that we sell ourselves short. Because we look at something and immediately decide: that’s it. With my work I’d like to invite people to look closer.’

Anook often has pink hair. She’s got a nice studio in the city of Arnhem. With big windows and lots of light coming in. There are tiny puppets hanging on the wall. Sometimes Anook hosts dinner parties in her studio. With tables full of colourfull flowers and fancy wine glasses.

‘Art is not a reproduction of what is visible; it makes things visible.’ This quote comes from German painter Paul Klee. Anook posted it on her website.

‘The sediment are layers on top of which the rest grows. They are microscopic recordings of things that are out of your scope. Things like blood or fungi for example. The drawings that belong to the LAM museum, show a cheese fungus, which you can’t see with just your own eyes’, says Anook.

‘I create lots of works about landscapes, but they are actually never about landscapes. They’re about pretty flowers, trees and grass. I always wonder how people should be. I ask this question through nature. The way we look at naure doesn’t say anything about the trees, but everything about us. There is a contradiction: when we look at a large tree, we can’t see the detais. When you focus on a single leaf, you can’t see the entire tree. The contradiction is: insight and oversight. In and out.’