linda molenaar

Sewing the meaning

A globe of soft feathers, a walking stick with a knee joint, a sweater which is half swan, leather wrapped bones. Linda Molenaar makes sculptures with an intuitive and crystal clear self logic. You take their beauty, craft and labour intensive making for granted. The magic rabbit in the hat is dead, just like the embroidered pigeons, the moles, the swans. And you can’t walk in those shoes and the working gloves are not workable. So, what is their logic?

Everything has a past, an inside, a background. The objects perform next to their everyday roles a part in stories we associate with memories, places and feelings. These meanings can't be chained by laws
and causality, consequence or reason, but instead follow the twisted, sometimes obscure ways of dreams: smell, familiarity, texture, what we expect from the inside, what we are afraid of, or desire- everything plays a part. This is the home of poetic meaning where we are pushed by the energy of loss, lust, beauty and desire.

Linda Molenaar executes her dream works with scrupulous care, often with humour and patience; sometimes with violence. She stitches all layers of meaning to form a new fabric of unity. The materials can be dirty or ugly according to everyday logic; improper, unknown or taboo, but that does not matter to Molenaar. She works according to the freedom, the