February 2018

Surreal Assemblage

by Martine Mooijenkind

About the Creator

Martine Mooijenkind, alias: Knutseltroep, is a collage artist currently situated in Gouda, The Netherlands. In addition to her profession as a care attendant for the disabled, she practices the art of collage making. Her works are mostly surreal. By merging several seemingly incompatible worlds into a new universe, she tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations. Knutseltroep's works are on the one hand touchingly beautiful, on the other hand painfully attractive. Sometimes her works appear idiosyncratic and quirky. Again and again, the artist leaves us orphaned with a mix of conflicting feelings and thoughts. By experimenting with aleatoric processes, Mooijenkind formalizes the coincidental and emphasizes the conscious process of composition that is behind the seemingly random works. The thought processes, which are supposedly private, highly subjective and unfiltered in their references to dream worlds, are frequently revealed as assemblages.