About the Artwork

Wholesome Respect Lonesome Being; Being sensitive aware of your surroundings, experiencing awe and wonder, can make it a challenge to relate and connect others.

This artwork is created as a co-creation with poet of Susana Rinderle.
I was guided by her poem In Captivity (7 verses).
It is an interesting process to let yourself be guided by someone else poetic lyrics.

I work intuitively, letting the words sink in deeply until a feeling emerges that can be depicted. A felt sense, as it were, matched by movement, color, and shape. I try to capture the essence of an experience in an image.

In this poem, I was touched by the intense connection with nature, the love and determination, and simultaneously and in contrast, the loneliness, the search for connection, the self-doubt, and finding a way through it.

The interconnectedness of everything is a key feature that resonates through this artwork.
It so thin and fragile; truly connecting with every piece of nature. it evokes awe and at the same time a deep sense of the fragility of existence. Realize this paradox and let it sink in, and seek it out again and again, connect with it, and appreciate it. Because it is also enormous and beautiful. It’s like a connected spiral of constant deepening, beautiful.


Read Susana’s poems and more of her artistic work here.

View our previous co-creation here

Poetic and Work in Progress video

In Captivity Recited by: Susana Rinderly
Artwork Wholesome Respect Lonesome Being created by: Lexa de Swaenen.