Birgit Gerritsen

My DREAMSCAPES are formed by dreams, thoughts and the visual information that is fired at us daily through a variety of media.

I create these DREAMSCAPES in my 'visual diary', on large paper or on canvas using mixed media: collage technique, by painting and drawing with pastel chalk. Textures, structures and layers emerge, it is an organic process. The landscapes grow through layers of images, shapes and textures from the imagery I encounter through various media. I use photos from film and TV stills, images and text from magazines and newspapers, as well as plastic trash and organic material that I find.

As a visually oriented person, I am both stimulated and overstimulated by visual pollution and feel the need to process, transform and translate this bulk of visual information and materials I find into a virtual landscape.