(Archive) No One Is Illegal

Beautiful art works with a painful message.

The works have their origins in the stories of Saar Depuydt, a good friend of the artists, who drives with her friends every fortnight with a number of cars full of food, clothes and tents to Dunkirk to help the people hiding there in the woods to survive, on their way to reach England by sea.
There are three different images. They are all very colorful, the bright colors of the wool felt are freely assembled to the three different compositions, that are made over and over again, every work in the same compositions, but in different colors. So every work is unique. The wool felt color pieces are slightly surrealistic, Manga like, and attached on a background of two lanes of woolfelt, like a horizon.The sizes are 42 x 30 cm. The art works look very beautifully and attractive, although the subject is very painful.

It's an llegal practice to help refugees in France

The works have their origins in the stories of Saar Depuydt, a good friend of the artists, who drives with her friends every fortnight with a number of cars full of food, clothes and tents to Dunkirk to help the people hiding there in the woods to survive, on their way to reach England by sea. What is happening in Dunkirk is illegal, both staying there and helping. However, the repeated expulsion of people by the police in France is also contrary to fundamental human rights. It is horrible that the voluntary work that Saar does is needed and that Western Europe does not deal differently with the refugees, some of whom still die every day trying to reach Great Britain.

It's time for action, we're all responsible !

Over and over again Saar goes back to Dunkirk despite of the actions of the France government. It’s like Sisyphus Labor and in the same way the artists make the three art works over and over again. The artworks cost € 350, half of that amount will be transferred to Saar Depuydt to support her to help the refugees.
As artists Nicole Driessens and Ivo van den Baar can not solve this huge European problem. However they can generate attention with their work in a artistic way, so people become aware and start acting.
So if you want to purchase an art work, just send the artists a message with the number of the art work and they’ll produce that one for you again.
ivo@wandschappen.nl