'Exchange' - 8th Working Lab 2011/Japan

'Wall of Fame'

Japanese paper
250 300cm

"Who chooses for the natural way,
will find enough to treat the
world their gifts."

 

 

Sculptures II 2011

'Chengdu sleeps'

 

hardstone and ceramic
150 50 30cm

 

 

'Delft Blue - new images' 7th WAD Working Lab 2011

'Esposure in Blue'

ceramic
25 20 10cm

 

 

 

 

Poetry Project IV 2011 - Ithaka

'Ithaka's'

glass, sand, polyesther
100 100cm

 

 

 

Sculptures I 2010

 

'Navarro'

Bronze
height 50cm

 

 

Art under the volcano - symposium 2009/Indonesia

* painter and installation artist.
Bloem has a specific vision on earthheating and the Merapi: the earth is warm of itself; deep inside we will find a fireball full of energy. She has dedicated this project to her late father, who always has been an artist deep in his soul.
One of her installations is a letter to the Merapi in which she asks if it’s allowed to do this project: we both need water to stay calm.

Recycle Art - symposium 2008

'an other word for recycling will be Metamorphosis.'

Bloem has always had a fascination with her own belongings. There is always a reason to re-use them. She wants to connect the past, present and future.
She does not assume that everything has to be recycled and is aware of others’ ambivalence towards this philosophy. She uses everything: from her grandson’s rubber teat to the lost tooth from her grandfather. However sometimes she only uses new materials.
In 2001 she created her installation ‘House of Spirits’, after which it was stored at home. For the symposium ‘Recycle art’ she has given it a new meaning and a new place: a pentagonal contemplative place of spirits.
One can go through it for meditation and support. There are five Japanese wishes gouged out at the five entrances.
Her ‘House of Spirits’ undergoes a true metamorphosis.
Bloem wants the spectator to be inspired by glimpses of former things, united with the present and the new to provide the basis for new images.