HOMO LUDENS

'Homo ludens' shadow sculpture in iron wire and lead, in a former prison cell commissioned by De Stichting CultuurKoepel Haarlem, (Holland), is about freedom and non-freedom.

'Homo ludens' (The playing man, free after Johan Huizinga) a view of man in which man is first and foremost a creature of play. Playing is freedom and living in freedom of mind.

Homo Ludens is about freedom versus unfreedom, this head in wire, lead and light is about freedom within the limited space of the cell and freedom in the infinity of your head.  In the head the personas in constant dialogue, directing, longing, hoping and dreaming. At the core, the child who cries and, above all, wants to be seen alongside the energetic warrior who wants to live, play and break out. The shadows on the walls depicted thinking and dreaming. 
The shadow of the eyebrows show on the wall the leap of Icarus' flight into free space.