Breaking Bread
23.03.2024 - Ceremonial performace with Beatrice Pittman
This shrine for the bread shows our thanksgiving to a new season of growth and seeds to be planted; a celebration of the sun and its warmth, of the balance between night and day during the equinox and most importantly sharing this with you through ceremony by breaking the bread for you.
By combining paintings and textiles with the objects given by the location we created a shrine in the kitchen. In the buzzing energy of the kitchen, which is the heart of the home, a place to gather, share stories and food, we stay connected to the ceremony and to each other.
The Breaking Bread ceremony was part of Pharmakon Festival by Zoef Mashaldina at Greylight Projects (Heerlen).
Reclaiming the Land
When Moons moved to the village of Sibbe in the province Zuid-Limburg, she had a garden for growing vegetables at her disposal for the first time ever. “I felt I needed to do something with that garden, with eating, and with painting.” In the month of May the land yielded enough produce for her to organize a harvest fest. The dishes she prepared with these vegetables were laid out on a linen tablecloth that people could eat off. The vegetables left marks on the tablecloth, random patterns that Moons added her own, painted variations to. The ink she used was made from plants from the same garden. While the stains represent the harvest and the conviviality of eating together, Moons’ own additions are the result of an intuitive working process.
At Prospects Moons is showing Reclaiming the Land (2023), a winter version of the aforementioned principle. In February not much is growing on the land, and therefore her paintings are accompanied by dried flowers, plant residues, and everything else that can still be found in a winter garden. The presentation is thus a reflection on the seasons.
“I’ve been doing a great deal of thinking about cycles. While working on the land I noticed that growth and decay, life and rest all go hand in hand. This gave me a feeling of acceptance, the same acceptance that prompted me to take random shapes left by a harvest meal as the point of departure for my paintings.”
Text: Jorne Vriens
The Labyrinth
Analoque photos of the second growing season, july 2023
Midsummer, Litha, Fire, Heat & Growth
As Above, So Below
These works mark a transition to the more invisible and chtonic aspects of nature. The weeds, the roots, mycellium and dead remains. From my garden I learned that everyting that happens underneath the surface of the earth is reflected by the plants, insects and flowers. The garden as we know and see it is a reflection of the soil and everyting that happens in the dark. As above, so below. The choice for natural unprepared linen is a consicous descision about the ground from which to grow my paintings.
