It is time to look back and evaluate the art I passionately created since 1989. After thirty five years, there are still unfinished subjects that need to be worked out. I will pick up these elements and clear away the rest. This exercise reflects the urgency to move forward. By doing so I draw on old and necessary ideas and make room for the new. Perhaps I will bury my previous works: entrust the entire oeuvre to the ground, but first exhibit, share, sell and recycle as much as possible. Carla, The Hague 2024 SEPT-OKT. 2024 | RETROSPECTIVE #1 | Window display at my new studio Van Galenstraat The Hague. Looking back to go forward. "Die Welt" (a wall hanging, connecting white gloves with golden chains) and "Venus of Willendorf" (in the right corner) from the GLOVE MAKERS project. Searching for the unprecedented possibilities of contemporary art 2012 WIEN NOV. 2024 | RETROSPECTIVE #2 | "Titia's Dresses" (right) and "Seedbed" (left) from the INVISIBLE project. I found cloths (bodies) which I adapted to pieces of art (souls). While I was working in this female area of the magical art of thread, creating everything by hand with needle and thread. 2000 GRONINGEN DEC. 2024 | RETROSPECTIVE #3 | from the PLASTIC FOR EVER project. Fake is real. To work with the theme of authenticity, I created a Real Plastic World. 1995 WINDHOEK my work... a poetic merging/remix of forms, materials and thoughts. i am trying to connect the present/new -and- the past/old.