Artist Boxie is going on ‘I don’t know’ retreat.
Dutch artist Boxie van Boxtel started the ‘I don’t know retreat.’ The goal is to disconnect from everything and make an inner journey to discover what is important and whether it is possible to say goodbye to it. It is a retreat to experience what it is like to live disconnected and free.
All material possessions have been thrown away and the rent of the studio has been terminated. The key was returned to the landlord last week and Boxie goes on a journey. Nothing is fixed and goes where he wants to go at that moment. The intention is to experience during this inner journey of discovery what it means to disconnect from planned life and materialism.
Boxie wants to be guided by connection and feeling to determine where he goes or what he does. He wants to make the world a little more beautiful and wants to help other people and especially children with more creativity based on this philosophy.
A spiritual journey of discovery
After many years of traveling and various types of holistic retreats, Boxie has learned a lot about himself and self-healing. However, after he returned from a retreat in Bali a few years ago, he started thinking about what was actually important and what happens if you could say goodbye to it. Is it possible to truly disconnect and be free? These are spiritual questions that Boxie wants to find answers to for himself during this physical and inner journey.
Boxie wants to know what life is like, when uyou leave everything you've ever known behind.
The idea is that if you let go of everything, you will have more time and space to connect with the world around you and see how you can make this a bit more beautiful together. Without planning, Boxie starts living in exchange for one of his works of art or spreading creativity. It is the beginning of a journey to connect with oneself and the world around it. The journey starts today in Haarlem, but who knows where it will take Boxie.
Rigorously saying goodbye to everything
Boxie wants to feel what it is like to be freed from any form of stability or materialism. Free from all ballast. It is only in this way that it is possible to truly disconnect. A few years ago, Boxie already got rid of a 10 cubic meter container full and thousands of works of art, but now it is time to say goodbye to everything that holds him down in order to be free. Boxie only takes with him what he can take with him and literally leaves everything behind, including the art he has made so far. Disconnecting is only possible if you are free from any connection with material possessions.
Art sales according to price philosophy
In order to finance parts of the trip, Boxie will leave a number of works of art at each location where he stays. This means that his works of art will not only hang in chic galleries, but in living rooms throughout the Netherlands. Boxie wants art to remain accessible to everyone and works with a price philosophy. This means that a potential buyer determines the final price of the work in consultation with the artist. This also involves the emotional connection between the buyer and seller of the work of art.
This suddenly makes art a lot more accessible to a lot of people.
Free murals at your home or business
In the coming period, Boxie wants to travel around and make murals at people's homes in the Netherlands. The idea is that Boxie stays at people's homes, helps them and leaves a mural or painting behind. In this way, Boxie wants to get in touch with different types of people In recent weeks, there was a successful exhibition in the studio in Hoorn.
And on Monday, September 16, the key to the studio was handed in. In the coming week, Boxie will make a mural in Haarlem. The intention is to create a movement here.
There is still the possibility to register for a free painting or mural in exchange for Boxie as a guest in the guest room. In this way, Boxie wants to experience what it is like to be free and to experience the space that this freedom brings with it.
Just think about it, what do you get space for if you completely let go and disconnect everything.
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