Lime, gypsum, ink, soil, seeds, branches, moss.

From the ancient Bloedsteen, Hoogendijk created three replicas and stacked them on top. The contemporary versions, in contrasting pastel hues derived from natural ingredients, are made of porous materials where seeds, spores, mosses, and plants can take root, and small animals and organisms can feed. Rain, wind, sun, grazing, erosion, and touch gradually transform the artwork’s color and form, while simultaneously nurturing new life. Essentially, Hoogendijk provides the foundational conditions, and nature creates the artwork—one that will never be complete, as it exists in a cyclical process of growth, bloom, decay, and renewal. In this natural process, we become aware of time—not linear, but cyclical. And that is hopeful.