“We Three Retrospective” will be installed at WorkHeart, Kampen, NL in June 2021.
Douwe Buwalda, Bert van der Sluijus and Linda Anderson have worked together since 2008 when they first met at a group show in Enschede, NL. In 2010, they were invited to create an installation at an old academy building in Kampen, NL. “We Three Retrospective” will be installed at WorkHeart, Kampen, NL in June 2021.
The work for the installation involved creating a rotating mechanism with a bent streetlamp post approximately 15 feet long. From this we attached additional mechanical workings to create the scene of a tricycle going round and round.
This retrospective features a number of our other works from 2008 to 2017, the merry-go-round, the large feathers in the fireplace and other installations throughout The Netherlands. The retrospective provides a unique opportunity to see the work of a team of three artists, two Dutch and one American. The photo is from the installation before the shoe lasts were arranged along the bottom of the painting.
An empty tricycle creates a circle on the wood floor, lit by the large windows in an old academy.
The girl’s legs are too short to reach the pedals, wood blocks are added, and her galoshes attached.
The missing seat is replaced by a curved five-pronged hay fork.
The tricycle attached to a tall and curving light pole, guiding her on an increasing circular path, round and round.
In front of her is the poet, writing in Dutch with chalk, as he finishes, the tricycle’s path erases his words.
At the outer edge of the circle sit present children.
Just beyond the ring of children is a semi-circular line of shoe lasts from the men with broken feet.
The lasts are the remembrance of their work.
Behind the lasts stands a semi-circular shaped canvas eight feet high and fifty feet long encircles the scene.
The artist has painted childlike forms in bright pink, yellow and white on the canvas.
As the poet finishes, he gives the children chalk and leads them to the painting.
The children draw as high as they can reach on the lower third of the painting.
The time is 1940 and 2010.