sonnet 4
Sonnet 4

Charcoal on paper, bramble cordage, clay, acrylic paint, 100 x 340 cm
2024

"Spinoza is de stem waarmee ik zing

Geheel het deel dat ons verheft tot iets

Een klank met kracht, geen toon waarin het niets

Genaakt en duurzaam danst op wat verging

De mens, de mens boetseert het bos van ooit

Verwassen van verleden, zwart noch wit -

De tint van onvermogen die verhit

Verlamt, totdat het ijs en grijs ontdooit

Waar blijft de oude lente, nieuw geluid?

Het glanzend coloriet van droom en daad

Arpeggio's van licht uit een gouden luit

Vervuurde vogels, verspreid nu het zaad

Maak zwanger deze zo vergeten bruid -

Natuur: ons moeder, sanctus, Hoge Raad

Spinoza is de stem waarmee ik zing"

- Mastersonnet by Ah.H.J. Dautzenberg

A.H.J. Dautzenberg and Rob Moonen collaborated with fourteen artists to create a crown of sonnets. A crown of sonnets is formed by fourteen thematically interconnected sonnets, of which the opening or closing lines together form a fifteenth sonnet - the Mastersonnet. They drew inspiration from Baruch Spinoza, Johan Huizinga, and the nature located in the triangle of Schaapsven, Koningshoeven, and Moerenburg (near Tilburg). Central to the project is the idea that humans love to position themselves outside, or even above nature. The crown of sonnets suggest a playful way to try and place humans inside nature again; to explore the tension field that has been created between humans and nature. 

For this project, I composed the fourth sonnet (a visual sonnet). The two quatrains are charcoal drawings on paper, inspired by the movemensts of growth and decay of an old pine tree by the water. The tercets after the volta are clay strings, attached to bramble cordage I made from blackberry shrubs from the landscape triangle. Blackberries thrive on nitrogen-rich soil, often indicating human activity in the landscape. I therefore used it as a symbol for the interrelationship between human and nature. 

The master sonnet was written by A.H.J. Dautzenberg. The participating artists are Rob Moonen, Bart de Vrees, Skypunch Collective (Celine Werkhoven & Anna Zurkirchen), Sabina Timmermans, Merijn Bisschops, Inez Wolters, S. Lloyd Trumpstein, Rianne Wilbers, Reinoud van Vught, Frank Crijns, Eric van der Westen, Rohiet Tjon Poen Gie, Jenny Ymker, and William van der Voort (along with his band GGU:LL).

quatrain 1
Quatrain 1
quatrain 2
Quatrain 2
tercets
Tercets after the volta

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