The beauty of half-decayed materials, oxidation processes such as rust with beautiful colours, shapes and structures, the stubbornness of tree bark, but also flattened cans, the granular structure of sand, flaking walls, all those testimonies of history, of life that is lived, animated, enjoying, hurt and dented, sprung up again, powerful, breathing, struggling, searching, radiant.
Again and again the matter, which has been touched by the forces of nature, forms the basis from which Mieke Borgdorff departs, in which the painting 'whispers' her path in the creative process. It is a process of tuning in, coinciding with and merging into the experience. Transitoriness, wear and tear, weathering: for her signs of life that is lived.
Characteristic for her work are the earth colours: she uses earth and sand from different places and regions in the world, other materials she finds on beach, forest, street. Where it falls at her feet. It is often there for the taking!
Lyrical abstract works emerge, in which matter is decisive, cosmic landscapes also emerge, a world to lose yourself in, to make contact with what is greater than yourself, to dream, to experience the essence of existence in the deeper layers of your consciousness.