We made this mural and this floor painting of 500m2 in the old zoo in Emmen, in the old elephant enclosure. This was organized by Writers Block!
We painted two self-portraits on the floor. We find that in the last few years nudity has always been linked to sexuality, as if nudity is inherently sexual. We also find that the representation of these 'sexual nudes' is always very much the same: an unattainable ideal image of the woman. We wanted to respond to these two statements through this floor painting. This is us, just naked, normal bodies and not sexual.
On the wall we made the VAAF special: feet with nine toes. It’s an inside joke of ours: While painting our first mural, Lotte accidentally painted the toes of a foot on the wrong side. The paint was still wet, so she painted some more toes on the foot, with the idea that she would erase the ones on the wrong side. But we never did. Thats why we have a foot with nine toes almost always in our murals!