A B O U T A L L T H A T I S U N K N O W N C O L L E C T I O N
The collection ‘All that is unknown’ is derived from a poem the artist has written. The poem is written towards nature and her beloved who is either missed or grieved. The collection explores love and romance and Marianne suggests that to be an artist, one can not avoid being a romantic. The collection is inspired by sonnets and poems and letters by artists and writers. Marianne’s work is strongly referring to the letters of V.v.Gogh, writing to his brother Theo, describing how he fell in love with nature and how he felt deeply connected. In one of the many letters he describes a very moving moment, where a man has found himself. V.v.Gogh who struggled with many things in his life amongst was a struggle to find a sense of belonging, acceptance, meaning and love, he found this in nature. The poem ‘Gingo Biloba’ by Goethe has a great influence in the work, the poem the artists read as a child. The poem describes love as a mythical thing that nature is represented as part of the love language.
At the time whilst developing the collection Marianne was participating in the RCA summer course, to challenge ideas, several of the students were giving captivating performances in the written word. Marianne explored her writing. The love letter of Marianne explores what it feels like to be in love and intertwines the experience of love with nature and freedom. And suggesting that love and romance is a great capacity in itself to have. Marianne describes and explores what love can be in its many forms, primal and mysterious at the same time, expanding the mind. The infatuation, feeling foolish, obsessively strong, admiration and interest for some one. Where romance is something that also two people have to believe in for it to be able to exist and when given it, it could still pass you by unnoticed. Marianne explores the complexity of love and depicts it in the form of writing and painting and nature. The poems wander through landscapes as part of the landscape, describing nature as part of love, empathy and belonging. The writing of the poems are not chronicle and are separated in the landscape and separated in time, indicating that the meaning of her poems and love exist outside the timeline we live in.
T H A T I S U N K N O W N C O L L E C T I O N p o e m by M a r i a n n e H e n d r i k s 2 0 2 3
All that is unknown
Is yet to be discover
I have so many questions for you
I am capable of great darkness
Do not forget
I know that I do not belong
I do not know where I am
I question what is freedom
When I do not know what it is, how do I
Seek for it. What do I long for
I hope you are who you
say you are. Try not to be
the inevitable
I N TO T H E F O R E S T - p o e m by M a r i a n n e H e n d r i k s 2 0 2 3
I dream every day sometimes it is good sometimes it is bad
I am often afraid that it all will fall apart
When I do not love you I hate everything
When I love you I love everything
I find a lot very difficult
Then I remember how much I love you
You are not alone
My dreams keep changing
Where can I find you
When I can not see you
Keep looking and you shall find
You are everywhere when you are not here
In your arms I should be
That is where I belong
There is so much to see
There is so much to find