{"id":280,"date":"2015-09-02T13:40:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T12:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jolijndewolf.nl\/blog\/?page_id=280"},"modified":"2025-06-14T16:18:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T15:18:47","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jolijndewolf.nl\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The in between<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like contrasts and their poetry in between poles. I like art that shows what is there and turns the mundane into something elusive. Like words that are on your lips and yet refuse to be caught. A hat that blows off and keeps escaping while you try to grab it. The moment between stumbling and landing. The multipolar experience of being human, where binaries are an in-between space of potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I enjoy the sharp boundary between an inkblot and snow-white paper. To read how the years got anchored in a tree stump. To stand still in the middle of the city because the moon doesn&#8217;t hide its craters. To watch a plant grow while being in a hurry. Maybe, just maybe, one day I will reach an ultimate maturity and wish to reincarnate as a tree. To gain the patience to live in the here and now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, I would&nbsp; love to send you a holiday snapshot of the smell of moss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The binaries<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><b><i><strong>J<\/strong>olijn de Wolf<\/i><\/b> (1984) is an artist from the Netherlands. De Wolf works in various media like printmaking, community art, video and performance. In her work she examines the multipolar experience of being human. She has a BFA at the Hogeschool van de Kunsten Utrecht, and a MA Live Art and Performance Studies in the Theatre Academy Helsinki, Finland. She is founder of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenmythsmeet.com\"> Mythological Institute,<\/a> a platform for participation, connection and creativity by making use of creativity and contemporary storytelling. Together with Sander de Graaf she is co-director of the Art Compass foundation (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stichtingkunstkompas.nl\">Stichting Kunstkompas<\/a>), a foundation with the aim to make art and art-education accessable for people who otherwise do not get in touch with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The in between I like contrasts and their poetry in between poles. I like art that shows what is there and turns the mundane into something elusive. Like words that are on your lips and yet refuse to be caught. A hat that blows off and keeps escaping while you try to grab it. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":["default"],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-280","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolijndewolf.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolijndewolf.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolijndewolf.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolijndewolf.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolijndewolf.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolijndewolf.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolijndewolf.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolijndewolf.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}