2014 Breathe Out! Children blowing soap bubbles is a famous and popular image in classic Dutch art. Every child has done it and does it. In my memory an image was engraved what a bubble looks like. In one of the sessions with my children playing within the light beam of a slide projector, they…
2013 Dansa i en ring / Dancing In A Circle Making charcoal prints of their feet, my children began to dance in a circle and to sing. I noticed their shadows playing on the white wall and filmed that. Giving only minimal directions I let them play. What became larger than life: when a child…
2013 Lilly danse avec sa poupée / Lilly Dances With Her Doll A short video of my daughter dancing with her favorite stuffed doll. She often does this and I filmed her shadow. Watching the registration afterwards, its confrontational character took me by surprise. Without needing any additional explanation you see two meanings simultaneously: a…
2013-2015 I Walk Therefore I Am – Drawing As Performance. The work is a photoprint, the image is the document of a performance. I walk along a paper path which moments ago seems to have unrolled by itself. My feet leave black traces of charcoal, the location is the Old Court at Bergen. René Descartes,…
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…
2012 Les Ballets Russes The title comes from the text Rob Scholte wrote to accompany this video. He drew my attention to an aspect I had not noticed: in a way it is unconventional and controversial what these kids do because of the pureness of their movements. Being adults we would not be able to…
2011 Stepping Out Of The Shadow This photo is truly important to me. In the context of my project Preserving the Artists I took photos to document the stages of the works. One of the photo’s of Jan Hendrikse shows how he steps away from his shadow portrait, he is still minimally attached to his shadow.…
2005 Container (Sail Amsterdam) As a part of my final project at the Art Academy Den Bosch, I decided to walk around at night taking pictures of illuminated windows of houses and buildings. Windows like these I began to draw with charcoal and these drawings were the first I was completely happy with, for example…
