What would happen if a textile artwork could evolve to live in the forest?
The Blobs are what Holper imagines would happen if you were to leave their artworks in the forest for them to develop on their own. How the shapes would change and find support from the trees that surround them. How they would become part of the ecosystem of the forest.
The Blobs are built with the materials of Terschelling, with wool from the local sheep, plastics fished from the ocean and textiles donated by the community. They are a part of the island but they are strangers to the forest. None of their parts come from the woods but they live with the tree. They hug the trees in order to hold themselves upright, but they have to be careful not to strangle the trees and take them over completely. They want to be friendly, not just to the trees but us humans too. They want us to come say hi and give them a cuddle too.
Charlie Holper (Luxembourg 1997) graduated from the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen with a focus on abstract colorful textile works that vary between being 2 and 3 dimensional.
They work with a minimal visual vocabulary, with lots of repetition of the same elements and a focus on color. At the core their work is a collaboration with their inner child on a mission to create works they would have loved to explore as a kid.
