work
"Desire comes from different directions" solo show at Leo XIII, august 2013
Several studies - LEO XIII
"Lado de aca, lado de alla" graduation show at Leo XIII, june 2013 (for text click here)
theoretical research MFA - click here for text
several studies - leo XIII
design for wallpaper - slimtarra
"monument", two row wampum seremony, syracuse USA 2013
several studies - GZG Den Bosch
"un church centre: reorientation", New York USA, february 3013. Cooperation with Jacob Schiere (4/8)
"waad - menno and his context", harrisonburg VA & Fryslan, february 2013. Cooperation with Jacob Schiere (5&17/19)
design and production
various studies
"hoe ver loop ik" project in cooperation with Anke Purmer
stool made of restmaterials - cooperation with Lukas van Santvoort
"point blanck, choo choo, horses" ServiceGarage, Amsterdam, august 2012
- i spend a lot of time by myself
for relax and concentration
asif to have one eye opened and one eye shut
– i travel a lot, within den bosch, into the countryside, to cities and countries beyond
some borders are christal clear, others milky, fully opaque
i travel in time as well, just by sitting still
through my window I can travel from spring into summer
sometimes my closed eye can see more than my open eye
– i read about culture and rituals
some seem not tied to time at all
ignoring the tick of a clock
– i work in my studio
practicing features and looks, colors and shades
experimenting with models
working with lights and with backgrounds
– i walk outside
blending physical excercise with mental reflection
and while walking
i looked and was fascinated by the colours of the sky
blue turns to yellow, to pink, to red, to blue again, and dark, almost black
and yet it stays the same piece of sky
and while walking
i looked and was fascinated by people around
passing me on bikes, in cars, in trains and in planes
all went their own way as i went mine
big in passing and gradually turning small, to invisible,
leaving no lasting individual impression
and while moving
i perceived everything around me move along because i moved
but the further away the landmark was, the more it travelled with me
and the triangular perspective of the concrete road ahead of me stayed the same
distance changed in relation to my position
nature caught me, pounding my dreams
it doesn't seem to wonder about purpose
it leaves me, dreaming to be as a frog
a swimming instinct, nothing more
i found myself filming people
from a distance, growing bigger, crossing each other
- as if they had their own tunnel in space -
and then continuing their journey
it aches my throat and it puzzles me
so much space, nobody can escape
there is much of what i made that i can only grasp with intuition
but maybe all fuzz can somehow come to purpose
distance is both in time and in space
seeing someone walking away from me
tells me something about both
time and space
space and time blend – in my experience
mutually transforming and changing
borders blurr
much distinction is blurry
like green is yellow and orange is yellow too
like i can have my eyes open and shut at the same time
this is the wonder and perpetual uncertainty I try to communicate in my work
various studies, april - august 2012
"symprovisation" werkweek Extra City, Antwerpen, Belgie, april 2012
"shared" expositie Galery 5533, Istanbul, Turkey, april 2012
"a spectacle of the consequences" expositie Duende Rotterdam, februari 2012
"open 2012" presentatie St Joost Den Bosch, januari 2012
various studies
"From the start to the beginning" presentatie Lokaal01 Antwerpen, juni 2011
studie atelier voor Lokaal01 Antwerpen
"open 2011" St. Joost presentatie Den Bosch, februari 2011
studies atelier
"Waterland": researching the possibilities of the rising waterlevel in the Netherlands, I made a plan for adaptation to a new situation: not fighting against the water, but taking it as an opportunity for new ways of life. If the water would fill the ground floor of my appartmentblock, I would have find new ways of living with my neigbours and make different use of the changed public space. We would move to higher levels and recycle the constructions.
By connecting several levels, appartments and roofs I envision more diversity in the built structure and social environment. The formal, closed housingblocks will start to breath by the new use of
public corridors, patios and staircases.
design