Touch the Tide,

Hear the Light

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The Soul of the Sea: An Immersive Invitation to DriftIf you listen closely, you can hear it—the hush of the ocean, echoing in the heart of Amsterdam.

The Soul of the Sea, on view at NewHouse Gallery until July 13, is not just an exhibition; it’s an invitation to step out of the city’s rush and into a quiet, living meditation.

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31/05/2025

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The Soul of the Sea: An Immersive Invitation to DriftIf you listen closely, you can hear it—the hush of the ocean, echoing in the heart of Amsterdam.

The Soul of the Sea, on view at NewHouse Gallery until July 13, is not just an exhibition; it’s an invitation to step out of the city’s rush and into a quiet, living meditation.

From the very first moment, you’re welcomed as if you’re being drawn gently into the current. Sandra’s immersive world feels soft and otherworldly: glass, thread, light, and memory weaving together into a space where your mind can float and your senses can breathe. It’s a place where you’re invited to listen with your eyes and feel with your skin—where texture becomes music and every surface hums with stories of the sea.

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Nature's Viral Sound

There is nothing rushed here. The installation pulses with a calm intention—to honor the ocean’s deep, steady rhythm, and to offer a gentle merging of well-being, both for the body and for the marine soul. As you wander, coral-shaped glass sculptures and tangled, luminescent threads stretch across the gallery like a surreal, sacred reef—part textile art, part sci-fi, part underwater temple. Each corner asks you to slow down, to float, to remember your own connection to water, to the planet, and to wonder.

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Coral Drips

Suspended like secrets, the glass and thread “creatures” hang between dream and reef. Each piece is both fragile and strong, glowing from within, shifting in the light—alive with the memory of tides. Wrapped in recycled and donated yarns, woven with leftover threads and fragments of recycled plastic, they evoke an imagined sanctuary beneath the waves. Ropes curl and rest, not just as supports, but as living memories: they breathe, they hold, they remember. Color whispers, glass becomes almost skin, and fragility here feels like a gentle kind of power.

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As a Collaboration with Nature

Sandra’s process is as much about stewardship as it is about beauty. She works with what is already here—discarded garments, remnant granules, recycled yarns from textile museums and art labs, and fragments of glass born from sand and soda. Her handblown pieces slow the tempo, suspended like the ocean’s own breath. They dream of future collaborations with coral and algae, offering woven habitats for new life. Sandra experiments, listens, lets the materials play. The result is an installation that is always in motion, always growing, always learning from nature’s own course.

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As a Collaboration with Nature

Beyond the Gallery Walls

This world does not end at the gallery’s edge. With partners like Reef Renewal Bonaire, Sandra is exploring permits to place some of her pieces underwater—letting art and ecology truly merge, and letting the sea itself become a co-creator. Here, yarns and glass don’t just decorate space; they become part of nature’s ongoing story, flowing, evolving, letting life lead.

As a Collaboration with Nature

Float, Breathe, Remember

The Soul of the Sea is a refuge, a reminder, a call to drift and to feel. It’s a space to be gentle with yourself and to honor the pulse of the world beneath the surface. If you haven’t yet floated by, now is the time. Let yourself drift, breathe deeply, and carry a little of the sea’s calm with you when you go.

The exhibition “THE SOUL OF THE SEA” is on view until July 13 at NewHouse Gallery in Amsterdam.

Sandra Keja Planken