Margrieta Jeltema

ABOUT WORK

When I was a child, near our garden was a shed, a hidden place, where I sometimes went to play with my sister. There were lots of glasses piled one upon another, they were mirrors, they reflected a multiple world; it seemed one could enter these worlds one after the other; they were like Giordano Bruno's “infiniti mundi”....


my work is about fragility
about our fragility
about the ephemerals of daily beauty
lost beauty
found beauty
about sadness and longing
about how we make a world from our imagination
a world to live in

I look for the small miracles in a fragile everyday life.
I find sensuality in regards, forms, lines, colours; hidden and revealed,
in a world beyond the mirror.
not an image of reality, but a different world.
real in its own way.
not images of reality; images that reveal as much as they hide.

I'm especially attracted by transparencies; light that falls through leaves, flowers, fabrics, porcelain(...); setting something apart, showing something unnoticed before. I come from a world of graphic printing; for years I made etchings and dry needles (books) with my printing press, after living abroad with my family I returned to an almost forgotten passion for ceramics as well...

I love colors, faces, traces, shadows, signs of use that tell a story...

Photographing is part of my work as an artist. I use digital with enthusiasm but I love the craft, the handwork, of film. Most of my recent photographic work is made with medium format camera's.

I want to combine different arts, to experiment and to find new ways (that usually are born from my many errors..; a bit as in cooking... as in trying to educate children, as in growing flowers, as in loving...)...