Sara Bjarland / Groundwork poetry Sarah Waiswa (Uganda)

Sarah Waiswa (Uganda)

Shades of black and white fall over your shoulders

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

and ancient engravings amidst the vast landscape

but also within the city itself

Sara Bjarland / Groundwork poetry Sarah Waiswa (Uganda)In 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