Elise EEKHOUT

Have you ever considered how special it is that we can read? Text is nothing but a series of characters in a row, to which we have assigned meanings. We can experience a range of feelings and emotions just by looking at those signs. From an early age, Artist Elise Eekhout has been fascinated by letters. What she finds so fascinating is that we don’t or hardly don’t see those signs anymore, once we can read. You are immediately transported to the world behind the letters. Based on this fascination, Elise wants to show how text and images intertwine in her head, and how they enter into a symbiosis with each other. She does this by making paintings in which she interweaves images and text. Almost all artworks in this series are inspired by books the Artist read.