Art Whino returned to Richmond, VA on July 11, 2016 for the fifth installment of the Richmond Mural Project. This year the organization reached their short-term goal of creating 100 murals throughout the city, allowing visitors to see work of differing styles by artists from around the world.
One of this years participants was Handiedan, a Dutch artist who pushes mixed-media collage to a higher level. Similar to her fine art process, Handiedan’s wheat paste murals are multi-layered, hand-cut collages that have a distinct three-dimensional quality. Her subjects are classic female pin-ups that she creates digitally using ornamental components such as currencies, sheet music and her own cartoon drawings. Handiedan’s pin-ups look like something between an adorned femme fatale from a noir film, a sexually joyful pin-up from a 1950’s calendar and a tattooed rockabilly girl. Each work is a treasure trove of symbols, with a focus on cosmology, Eastern philosophy and sacred geometries.
Below are images of Handiedan creating Luna Cogitationis for the Richmond Mural Project:
Luna Cogitationis
Wheatpaste Mural
Paper on brickstone
49’25” x 39’5″ / 15 x 12 m
Location: S 15th Street x Dock Street, Richmond VA
Image courtesy of Tost Films
Image courtesy of Tost Films
