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Patroon Blind Floor

Blind Floor

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Breda eye tiles are unique and mysterious. You won't find them anywhere else but Breda and very few have been preserved. In June 2023, the tile floor was brought back to life!

Javier de Riba

The Castle Square was then transformed into an impressive Blind Floor, inspired by eye tiles. Spanish artist Javier de Riba created the design. He calls the artwork "Those from below."

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Why? The tile floor of the Nassaus was dotted with eyes, so they were all looking up from below. Very unusual in art, says Javier

What does it mean?

What Hendrik and Mencía wanted to say with the eye-tile floor, no one knows. Perhaps it is about equitable governance. Looking at something from all sides, making information public or overseeing it. You make better decisions if you often look around you or have a lot of people watching. Of course, this topic is still very current.

Blind Floor

The Blind Floor is also about doing something together, for it was done together. And like Mencía, the city of Breda brings artists to the city, who look at the city with their own eyes and make you think about it.

Blind Floor

Javier developed a new pattern inspired by the old eye tiles. In doing so, he played with the shapes and colors.

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Playing with form and color

Geometry and symmetry were most important to Javier de Riba. Therefore, a circle (pupil) is now central instead of the hand-drawn eye. Blue and yellow are the colors of the coat of arms of the Nassau family. These are also reflected in Javier's design, but just a little differently.

Blind Floor

In June 2023, Javier and volunteers applied the pattern. Wondering what that looked like? Check out this Blind Floor page.

Patroon Blind Floor

Blind Floor

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