Sara Bjarland / Groundwork poetry and by whom are things

and by whom are things organized and what kind of landscapes of experience are made (im)possible by the practices we enact and encounter

writer and critic Colin Pantall and graphic designer and writer Lien Van Leemput

but also within the city itself

Shades of black and white fall over your shoulders

how do you keep them alive

Sara Bjarland / Groundwork poetry and by whom are thingsIn her sculptures and installations, Bjarland uses discarded objects and materials that she finds in the city, to investigate overlaps and encounters of the natural and the artificial, the living and the non living. On al most daily bike rides past the enormous trash piles in Amsterdam, Bjarland collects objects such as pieces of furniture, dead house plants, plastic flowers, garden accessories, bits of fences, cat crab posts, floor mobs, broken