CHRYSTL RIJKEBOER

Love is the Devil in the Melkweg in Amsterdam.

Showing the angels during the AFFF (22nd Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival) 2006.

ID - Noes Butter

Cheque out her website as well! http://www.noesbutter.nl

Opening ID show at Nova Art Gallery.

ID a duet show with Noes Butter and me.
Some picts of my work.

Setting up the ID show with Noes Butter at the Nova Art Gallery in Eindhoven.
http://www.novagallery.nl

First real try-out.

This is what I want to do with them. Making an installation the 'real ones' hanging next to the photo's.

Balaclava no. 4

My first made juwelery.

Red haired boy balaclava.

The ‘Girly’ balaclava.

Aint she quite???
The balaclava is totally knitted with human hair, even the bright colours. They are from fluorising-dyed hair from the musical 'the little mermaid'.

The first balaclava.

This balaclava is totally knitted with human hair, even the bright colours. They are from fluorising-dyed hair from the musical 'the little mermaid'.
It is creapy! Even I have to get used to it.

Burka

The burka is knitted.
The burka is knitted. It is totally made of human hair, I like to upheave the purpose of the burka. Woman wear and has to wear it to cover up their face and hair, this burka is made of hair. Now I have to discribe the purpose of making it and find a good way to show it. It has to be 'filled' with a body otherwise it is an empy piece of knitted hair.

New project.

Weird balaclava's from the sixtieth.
I found these weird balaclava's on the internet and through E-bay I got hold of the knittingmagazine from 1965, with the knitting paterns. I will knit them with different colors of human hair.

Knitting and knitting…..

The burka is 'growing' slowly. I knit roughly 1cm. an hour.

Kunstlijn 2005.

I participated a groupshow this year and of course I show in my ArtUnit window gallery this month. This gave me a change to brouse around myself. Saw some nice art. I realy had fun at 'Kunstfort Vijfhuizen' where Simone de Groot has her studio. At her place visitors were free to change the setting of her sculptures.

Meanwhile….

I'm busy washing hair I got from a wigmaker. She gave me a trunk full of hair during the Kloone4000 project. I am so glad with it! It is all over the house hanging to dry. Because I got so much material at the moment I'm able to start a big knitting work. I planned to knit a burka for some time now, so I got started!

Work for ‘de Kunstlijn’

End of the Kloone4000 project.

This is the installation 'Kloone4000 baby prototype nr.1' made from the collected hairpockets from the Amsterdam hairdressers.

My last working day at the gallery.

Today it was the first crowded Saturday with all kind of people in the gallery. Some artists were installing their work, there were viewers, people coming in for the debat. This is what I missed the most the Saturdays I worked here. So it was a good last day working here. I finished my installation. I decided to take away the hanging baby.
Next Friday there will be a presentation evening of the participating artists.