Golden healing
of brokenness

This project was developed for the traveling exhibition of art collective ArsProDeo. The exhibition was a collaboration with International Justice Mission (IJM), about modern slavery and injustice that comes with it.

My theme was child prostitution. IJM liberates yearly a few thousand children worldwide from sexual slavery.

I used two photo’s I took at building sites, as the broken background of the story.

I was inspired by the concept of Kintsugi: a Japanese method to glue broken ceramics with gold. The golden vanes add to the story and the value of the piece.

For me the golden glue is Jesus. Somehow also these broken children will me healed.

Golden Healing of Brokenness,
Jesus Kintsugi – prostitution

Over the black and white photo of a building site,
I placed a collage of a broken body, “healed” with gold marker. I drew with charcoal and painted with acrylics to add context.

The artwork was attached to a black background
of mdf.

This artwork is now property of IJM
and hangs on the wall in their headquarters.

Poem by Spanish poet Lurdes Saramago Chappel,
with this artwork:

a tristeza / the sadness
que escorre / that runs
p’la alma / through the soul
do mundo / of the world
tristeza que / sadness that
escorre / runs
p’la pele / over the skin
sobe / rises
para cima / upward

Golden Healing of Brokenness,
Jesus Kintsugi

I was drawn to the broken plank in the photo. For me it stands for broken people.

I drew in the photo with gold marker, to tell the story of the healing power of Jesus, and that no one is to be thrown away. Every life is valuable.

PROJECTS
GOLDEN HEALING OF BROKENNESS

The project of ArsProDeo traveled during 2 years through the Netherlands. Mostly in churches. Here are some pictures of locations with my project. Sometimes both artworks, sometimes one of the artworks.

THE MAKING PROCESS
OF GOLDEN HEALING

These are some images of the making of Golden Healing. Especially the one about
child prostitution.
I think some drawings are more powerful than
the final artwork