The Legacy project runs parallel to Fluisteraars and arose from the question: what happens to your work when you are no longer around?

The impetus for this was the exhibition Contrast (Beeldenpark De Havixhorst, 2022), where one of the artists had already passed away in 2019, and the sudden death of the other artist occurred a week after the opening.
As the only remaining artist in this group, Heebink was confronted with the vulnerability of artistry and the inevitability of legacy.

In this context, the film Fluisteraars (2024, in collaboration with Saskia Jeulink) was created, which brings together the works and ideas of Loes Heebink, Henk Kraayenzank, and Gjalt Blaauw. The film explores their perspectives on aging and the meaning of their work in light of mortality and legacy. The destruction and reuse (plexiglass) of Heebink’s own work, Fluisteraars, serves as a key metaphor for the transformation of legacy.

Besides the film, Legacy includes photo series of still lifes of ash, video works about scattering plexiglass ash, and installations in which memory and matter take on a new form. A striking component is an installation in the basement of the former factory where Heebink lives: a Zen garden of plexiglass ash, of which the photographs remain as tangible witnesses. This installation was later rebuilt site-specifically in the Rensenhut of DIEP/CBK Emmen (2024), in combination with the videos Legacy (diptych) and Legacy (the tea party).

Legacy thus connects personal experience with universal questions about heritage, mortality, and continuity. The project reflects on how art can endure after its creator has disappeared, and how legacy carries not only a material but primarily an existential dimension.