All posts by Elis Vermeulen
People burrow in Milan.
Posted by Elis Vermeulen on May 8, 2012
http://globalburrows.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/people-burrow-in-milan/
The workhouse in Callan.
During the period of the big famine, an Gorta Mór, in Ireland 25% of the Irish people died and another 25% left Ireland for the new world. In this workhouse in Callan and the fever sheds surrounding the main building, over 3500 people died in a period of 4 years. From 1922 the workhouse was used to accommodate free state troops. Part of this building, with it’s [...]
Posted by Elis Vermeulen on May 3, 2012
http://globalburrows.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/the-workhouse-in-callan/
Beds.
This project brought me to different places and though it makes me annoyed as I forget it so often, I sometimes do remember to take a shot of the beds I sleep in. Herm.. I could also put it the other way, I am pleased if I remember to take the shots of the bed. Shots from the huge beds in hotels [...]
Posted by Elis Vermeulen on April 27, 2012
http://globalburrows.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/beds/
Dainava, a place in the US.
Walking over fields away from people and sounds and on a path where the winds swept trees of their feet. A place within a place within a place. ps Travels will take me away for a bit coming period and hope to come home with new ideas and info.
Posted by Elis Vermeulen on April 12, 2012
http://globalburrows.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/dainava-a-place-in-the-us/
Claiming
Early morning we went to a piece of wet woodland where I had worked before. It’s an area with lots of roes and fallow deer, water birds, fat pigeons and different birds of prey. Also an area popular with tourists, though they do not often wonder off and walk the deer paths, crawl through bramble bushes and feel [...]
Posted by Elis Vermeulen on April 8, 2012
http://globalburrows.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/claiming/
Hidden (2)
In Hidden post 1 I wrote; One late afternoon I made a Burrow in a hidden area near to some beaches and after a month, after the first snow, I went back to see if and what was left of the shape. It made me smile when I stepped from the deer track into this [...]
Posted by Elis Vermeulen on April 2, 2012
http://globalburrows.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/hidden-2/
Snow and ice
Despite that spring is upon us on this side of the globe a Burrow made with snow and ice. I went up to this spot a couple of times this year and last and am every time amazed by the frozen water, sometimes peaty sometimes clear, and the sounds the ice makes. It is especially beautiful when it snows and the [...]
Posted by Elis Vermeulen on March 20, 2012
http://globalburrows.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/snow-and-ice/
Hidden. (post one)
Some time ago I wrote that you do not often get a chance to go back to a shape and work on it again, for all kinds of reasons. Hope I get to work on this one a couple of times. One late afternoon I made a Burrow in a hidden area near to some beaches and after [...]
Posted by Elis Vermeulen on March 13, 2012
http://globalburrows.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/hidden-post-one/
Man.
Stables, potterysheds, cowsheds and woodbarns too, tell you things about family life and work, about people. Good places most of the time. This one? Very good.
Posted by Elis Vermeulen on March 4, 2012
http://globalburrows.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/man/
Snow.
Somewhere in Finland lives a man named Jirka Kallio, and he makes a snow castle every year. Terhi Ahonen and her son took me and my friend Aki there as Jirka said ‘Yep, that is fine.’ when they asked him if I could work on the Burrow project there. .. I cannot really explain how it felt to crawl inside [...]
Posted by Elis Vermeulen on February 22, 2012
http://globalburrows.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/snow/
Two sides of reality.
One post back I wrote about working in an area which was a shock to the system. I labored on two burrows that day. These heavy basalt blocks are used to protect the land when storm and hard winds hit the coast. When you turn around you will find a completely different reality.
Posted by Elis Vermeulen on February 13, 2012
http://globalburrows.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/two-sides-of-reality/
Water 3.
You do not get the chance often to go back to a shape you made and work on it again. When you do, it does give you a better understanding of the difference of working in, or with nature. both have advantages. We went back to this Burrow for the third time, to see how the shape ended [...]
Posted by Elis Vermeulen on February 5, 2012
http://globalburrows.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/water-3/
My land. My voice.
It was a bit of a schock for the system, this area with a combination of ancient clay and dark sand, seal sandbanks and heavy industry. It felt more real then a forest or meadow on such a cold morning, even though the fog made part of the industry and tops of the chimneys dissapear. And I stood [...]
Posted by Elis Vermeulen on January 27, 2012
http://globalburrows.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/my-land-my-voice/
Carolina Apolonia.
We took these shots on a cold, sunny and completely windstill day. The deer are at ease on days like these and we relaxed too when we sat down in the sun, drank steaming hot tea from the thermos, ate cake and talked about work the way friends can. Carolina her work gets, to no ones surprise, interest internationally because [...]
Posted by Elis Vermeulen on January 23, 2012
http://globalburrows.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/carolina-apolonia/
Summer rain.
At the end of last summer we stopped at a wood near Lake Michigan to see if I could work on a Burrow. At the moment I got my pack out of the car, the weather was still soft and the first small rainclouds just came in over this old woodland. When I finished working and started shooting the photo’s, finally thick raindrops changed all [...]
Posted by Elis Vermeulen on January 15, 2012
http://globalburrows.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/summer-rain/
Windforce 10
We are used to living in a land where the sea level is above land level. On a day when the wind force is high there are flood controls 24 hours a day along the entire coast, and throughout the year the dikes and beaches are reinforced. I went to the coastline before the tide’s highest point, wind came from the south, across the land towards this stretch of [...]
Posted by Elis Vermeulen on January 3, 2012
http://globalburrows.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/windforce-10/
Water 2.
(If there is a Water 2 there is a Water 1.) So this is the second post in a serie of three, as there were three days we came back to the same spot on a muddy silty beach. On the first day I made the burrow and we took the photo’s which you can see here. The next day I dug [...]
Posted by Elis Vermeulen on December 29, 2011
http://globalburrows.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/water-2/
Hillside.
Posted by Elis Vermeulen on December 19, 2011
http://globalburrows.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/on-the-hillside/
The interview by Misty Ericson for ‘Her circle ezine.’
Interview in her circle ezine. Give Me Shelter December 17, 2011 | By Misty Ericson | Elis with one of her rough wool felt blankets. Photo: Henk Vermeulen Dutch artist Elis Vermeulen’s Global Burrows Project is an exploration of the places we inhabit and what we leave behind. From the beaches of the Netherlands to a [...]
Posted by Elis Vermeulen on December 17, 2011
http://globalburrows.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/the-interview-by-misty-ericson-for-her-circle-ezine/
A rare find.
When we were driving around, looking for places in the US to build a Burrow, we visited a childhood scene from one of my friends and I took my materials and other stuff into an old forest where she used to pick mushrooms and walk bare footed. The tree, blocking our path was a rare find, impressive with beautiful fungi and it made my head spin with images and dreams [...]
Posted by Elis Vermeulen on December 8, 2011
http://globalburrows.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/a-rare-find/
