A Preserved Place. Forest At Schoorl
2011 A Preserved Place. Forest At Schoorl, Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen
The Eternal Soldier
2011 The Eternal Soldier, Fort Spijkerboor, Westbeemster
Time – Light – Dark
2011 Time – Light – Dark (Leiden, Webster) The project in the building of Webster University Leiden lasted just one day. I worked in a cadence-like concentration – drawing light, space and time, drawing while light, space and time shift. The result I could not imagine beforehand. Strangely I experience more freedom to work…
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…
Shadows of Moments Passed
2011 Shadows of Moments Passed (Ottenhuis, Diepenheim) This installation is based on the video Shadows of Moments Past I shot in Schoorl earlier. The projection on the wall is complemented with drawings of trees. I wanted to show static moments in combination with video images that need time to be registered and presented. Sometimes filmed and…
Stepping Out Of The Shadow
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.…
Preserving The Artists
2011-2015 Preserving The Artists (Woody van Amen) My projects often start with an image that becomes more and more clear in my mind. My intention was to pay homage to artists who were my teachers although they were not aware of this. I grew up in a house filled with art. The artists who…
Preserved Places – Eschenau
2011 Preserved Places (Eschenau) In the Steigerwald forest – which I consider to be herman de vries’ biotope – I made a big work on a sheet of paper 10 meter long. The idea was to include herman’s shadow within the drawing of the forest, but something did not feel right, so in the end…
Landscapes (Without Fear)
2011 Landschappen (Without Fear) (Diepenheim) I find nature difficult: by itself it is very overwhelming and thousands of artists before me have already tried to match it, tried to be part of it. As an artist you must at least try to get beyond that. I presented small drawings of landscapes for the first time…
Charred Landscapes
2010-2011 Charred Landscapes I walked through the dune woodlands after the fires and made landscape drawings of the places where I had worked before, representing what I saw. My perception works through images, but often they pile up too quickly and become a strain. Then I take the time to draw these images so they…