RELIC: Cultivate the Soul

It is important to cultivate the soul within an object, to expose the essence, without losing the enchantment. It is more intriguing that “I do not know” than that “I know”. Excluding one or more senses, in my case by drawing blind, yields a subconscious experience and thereby exposes unknown territory.

The mystery of life and death has always been a driving force in art. The powerful visual language that religions have for this; the drama, the transcendent, has always obsessed me, precisely from the perspective of not understanding. Eroticism, sexuality, the miracle of life, seduction, and death are closely connected to this. Eroticism and religion as a kind of “sacred orgasm”. I notice that it took a long time before I dared to acknowledge these forces. Until I was 40, my work was much more rational.  

Ruudt Peters

"heart" brooch
silver, vilt, embroidery | 50 x 32 x 32 mm