Anna Klas

'“From beneath the roots of a tree” is a project focused on mindful movement, through and in alignment with our environment. How can we work with and learn to appreciate what the local grounds surrounding our home(s) encapsulate?

 

Being skin-to-skin with bodies of fermenting soils, rotting seaweed, and glass shards from the streets of Amsterdam, has led me to connect and open up to parts of this world I know little about. I got my hands dirty, dipped in clay, and shaped a series of vessels. Each explores an approach to mapping by being sculpted and glazed with foraged materials from a specific region. Accompanied by the longing to reuse past loved things, and the struggle of feeling at home in two places which appear in the form of an old kitchen table and a woven tea towel dyed with soils and plants from places I feel rooted in.

 

I invite you to walk with me, deep down into the soil, and out to where gentle waves are kissing the shoreline of the sea, back to the dirty pavement of Amsterdam, dressed in sparkling shards of glass.