'Do ut des' sacrificial bowl Sculpture

Jolanda gets her inspiration during long walks in the dunes and on the beaches of the North Sea close to her living place: the bark of old oaks, bent by the dominant western storms, the traces of man and animal in the sand, the shells and stones polished by the sea. And in her holidays in the mountains of France, she finds fossils, beautiful cobblestones and huge rock strata, spectacularly pushed upwards by the powers of the earth crust. With her throwing technique she can express her fascination for those natural weathered surfaces that carry the marks of time and the forces of earth, wind and water: pushing, cracking and lifting. She sees a parallel in the aging of humans: the smooth supple bodies of the youth, getting weathered, dry and wrinkled with age. A bowl symbolizes the giving or receiving and therefor lends itself to be used in ceremonies. With a sacrificial bowl one sacrifices for ancestors, god or gods, expecting to receive favors in return: ‘Do ut des’, Latin for ‘I give so that you will give’. These thrown bowls are double walled to emphasize their distinctiveness from ordinary bowls. The gold accents are a symbol of the most precious, the light, the fire, the imperial or the divine. Like in her other works, gold with its soft glow, is the counterweight to the rough weathered exteriors of her pots.