Jan Bokma

One glance at the highly polished sculptures Jan Bokma made before he came to EKWC betrays their perfection, the tireless refinement and time-consuming attention for detail. The contrast to the spontaneous, intuitive works he made in Oisterwijk could hardly be bigger. They deal with the same grand themes of life and death and procreation, just a bit messier, more organic, inspired by mushrooms and fungi that grow on decaying wood amidst the living trees. Bokma is delighted with the new impulses clay gave to his artistic process. The sculptures are a direct expression of the connection he feels with all kinds of life forms that thrive and propagate and feed on each other with a force that is at once macabre and inexplicably erotic.