Elma van Haren - DREAM - Sold

DREAM
A reclining figure, outlined like a map of the body, hovers above a yellow sickle. To the right stands DЯOON, with the R inverted. Blue curls, red cuts diagonally, orange branches spread out. Leaves, dots, a black circle, and fragments of writing lie intertwined. The work is layered and associative: body, dream, and sign merge. The inverted letter holds the title open — legible and shifted. Elma van Haren (1954) is a Dutch poet and visual artist. She studied at the art academy in 's-Hertogenbosch under, among others, Eugene Brands and Ger Lataster. In 1988, her debut collection *De reis naar het welkom geheten* was published, for which she received the C. Buddingh' Prize at Poetry International in Rotterdam. In 1997, she received the Jan Campert Prize for the collection *Grondstewardess*. Since the poetry collection *De wiedeweerga* (1998), she has also written for children. She has been a jury member of the PC Hooft Prize since 2003. Her visual work is in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, AMC, and important private collections in the Netherlands and Belgium. She was one of the artists in the exhibition TEGENLICHT at the SMAK in Ghent in 2010, alongside Honoré d'O, Narcisse Tordoir, Ann Veronica Janssens, Gert Robijns, and Jacques Charlier, among others.