KARLIEN VAN ROOYEN

The essential human story dances between the pure and the grotesque, between form and formless – these are the boundaries of our own humanity. Marks of the maker calibrate and celebrate this rhythm, the shared cadence of our collective consciousness. My experiential codes rise like talismans from this primal place and aim to give voice to a tacit knowledge that recalls memory of connection and belonging beyond the chronology of the analogue. These works are an effort to lean towards you, to share the splendor of our humanness.

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work. And when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.” – Wendell Berry