Resilience

"Four walls were painted in a central square over the course of one year. Each piece explores an aspect of Dutch history as it relates to art history, empire and post colonial politics, macroeconomic forces, and contemporary life. This fourth wall uses the format of the Peasant Paintings by Bruegel the Elder to explore contemporary individualism in the urban and European context. Residents of the Schandelen neighborhood participated in three content development sessions and were finally apart of the photo shoot to populate the village scene. Each member of the community is parallel but isolated, a tulip bulb springs from the ground to represent the resilience of a neighborhood wracked by drugs during the restructuring of the coal economy in Limburg to a service and clerical oriented one." - Gaia