Soul Imprints 

The extraordinary personal archive of Antoinette de Bach-van Loon (…-…) has inspired me to create the tapestries Soul Imprints.

On the carte blanche invitation of the Museum van Loon in Amsterdam at the occasion of my personal exhibition, I discovered in the family archive the pile of peculiar books written over decades by Antoinette de Bach-van Loon.
In these books she recorded her conversations with ‘Spirit guides’ with whom she was in contact her life long, written following the automatic writing technique.

In a book I found Antoinette’s ink blotter. The slightly fluffy paper was covered in black, royal blue and purple ink stains and traces of words crisscrossing one another.The beauty of this object with its rhythmic signs, remnants of lost significances imposed upon me.
I felt the conviction that this document should be interpreted in woven yarns, reflecting on a large scale what appeared to me as an abstract landscape of imprints of a soul.

I interpreted one side of the tapestries in a nocturne manner, the ink traces becoming cosmic elements. Both sides of the tapestries are to be exhibited, regardless of ‘front’ or ‘back’ of the tapestry.

In ‘Ink Stains’ the life-size figure of a man diffuses in a soft phosphorescent light when in full obscurity.

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A. de B.