Drawings
2020 Drawings
Residency Van Gogh House
2017 Residency Van Gogh House (Zundert) Spring 2017 I stayed at the house in Zundert where the Van Gogh family lived and Vincent was born. In many respects it was an emotional time of my life. More than once I read the impressive letters Vincent wrote to his parents and his brother Theo; the grave…
Road Side
2016 – present, Road Side In 2016 I rode my bike to bring my son to school every day, back and forth between Schoorl and Bergen. In spring I saw the roadside awakening, plants and flowers on that poor soil of sand, stones, tarmac, salt after a cold winter. I put sheets of paper amidst…
Flee – Flight – and Run
2013 Flee – Flight and Run In these works I myself am moving. I run and flee through the forests near Schoorl. I am not imagining this but i am actually running and fleeing about in that forest. I draw what I observe while moving. I have presented these drawings like a film sequence and…
Preserved Places
2012 Preserved Places, Drawing Centre, Diepenheim
Faith Fear Face
2012 Faith Fear Face In the police files these three words appear often. It’s about loss of faith, fear, losing face; if people have gone to another country and are exploited, have to survive through crime or prostitution, they cannot ever go back. Losing your face. The structural elements in this installation are shadow projections…
Body Scan
2012 Body Scan (studies for Faith Fear Face) Because of Container (2005) I was asked to do a project about people who try to flee towards a better future by hiding in containers transported by lorries and ships. Sometimes this ends in disaster, like the 58 Chinese who died in 2000 trying to reach the…
it is there – that is it
2012 it is there – that is it. shadows of moments passed (eschenau summer press publications) When i was working in herman de vries’ biotope of the Steigerwald Forest, I planned to make a video in the woods, his studio. herman dropped me and my materials somewhere, I installed the paper and the camera but it…
The Eternal Soldier
2011 The Eternal Soldier, Fort Spijkerboor, Westbeemster
Preserved Places – Sterrebos
2011 Preserved Places – Sterrebos (Diepenheim) During a residency at the Diepenheim Drawing Centre, I made a drawing of 6 meter of the long shadows on the ground of treetrunks at the Sterrebos forest. Because I kept tracing the treetrunks while the sun continued to progress, they got entangled with themselves and with each other. The…