De Blinkerd Editions #5:
… / … by Hilde Van Gelder
On January 21, 2020 museum staff at Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse (Norfolk) allowed Hilde Van Gelder to hold and touch an object, which had the impact of an iconic emergence: the Dogger harpoon (also named: Colinda harpoon). Both blade and shuttle, this part of a stag’s horn (a piece of red deer antler) brought her Ground Sea project to full completion. Van Gelder’s leporello contains a photograph that she made of this Bronze Age spear on that day, in the form of a postcard. It is combined with two postcards: one representing beach aster flowering on a cold winter morning (February 5, 2020) at Gullsway (Lowestoft), where she was staying at that time; and one made from a photograph that she took of the Rond point des droits de l’homme in Calais on February 15, 2020, a monument situated on a roundabout that pays tribute to Thomas Paine, “citizen of the world.”