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SJON BRANDS: HET WIJKENDE BESTAAN

brandssjon23

Het wijkende bestaan

Zij is het

gaandeweg verloren
gewaande vermogen
tot overgave aan
het onbeschoren
nog onbevlogen
wijkende bestaan,

het vallen, het verzaken
van het lood, de nood
van de dag, het anker
van wat wijsheid was,

het onversaagd geraken
waar de leegte beweegt
en de stilte nog luistert,
ach, tederheid fluistert.

Au,

de zoen op de blinde
ruit, de blikken huid,
de hand in het zand.
Zij staat achteraan

in de rij.

Sjon Brands

 

“De Tilburgse kunstenaar Sjon Brands maakt dadaïstische paradijsvogels. Absurde wezens samengesteld uit metalen gebruiksvoorwerpen, radiobuizen, struisvogelveren, pollepels, enz. Vogels die regelrecht uit het surrealistisch rariteitenreservaat van Jeroen Bosch fladderen.”
Het is een bos bonte karikaturen van ons bestaan, een vrolijke verzameling menselijke eigenaardig­heden en ondeugden, die het leven soms hard, maar alleszins de moeite waard maken. Zie: www.sjonbrands.nl/vogels 
‘Odd|Birds|on|the|Move’ is een project groteske ‘luchtschepen’, grote dynamische vogels met wonderlijke bouwsels en zonderlinge vogeltjes. Zie: www.sjonbrands.nl/airships

“The Dutch visual artist Sjon Brands makes Dadaist birds of paradise. Absurd creatures made of metal everyday objects, radio tubes, ostrich feathers, ladles, etc. Bird sculptures that seem to flutter straight from the surreal rarities reserve of Jheronimus Bosch.”
It’s a bunch colorful caricatures of our existence, a cheerful collection of human idiosyncrasies and vices, that sometimes make life hard, but definitely worth it. See: www.sjonbrands.nl/vogels
‘Odd|Birds|on|the|Move’ is a major project of grotesque ‘airships’, large dynamic birds with fantastical buildings and eccentric birdies. See: www.sjonbrands.nl/airships

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