Drawer

Untitled, scan with digital drawing, 2025

Untitled, ink on paper, 297x420mm, 2022

Fantastic Man
Image found in Fantastic Man, tape, 180x150mm, 2023

I suppose this counts as an excercize on the materiality of a printed image. Using tape to destroy the paper, leaving some of the tape there. Unveiling the layering of the paper, the ink and the table behind the few holes that are there. What intruiges me in the photograph is the fabric. I like how it blends with all the physical textures of my interventions.

Scans of plexiglas shapes, 2023

1
2 2 2
03!
4 (looks like A)
S (looks like 5)
3+3
1+6
8
9 N (for nine, nueve, neuf, neun or negen)
1o

Filmposters for Ohayo (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959) and Tokyo-Ga (Wim Wenders, 1985), 2022

Stills from The Flavour of Green Tea over rice (Yasujiro Ozu, 1952)

Double you tea, room devider for a tea bar, multiplex, paper, 2022

The Hole, 2022

The hole is a ritualistic tool for any living being feeling detached, disoriented or lost. It is also a tool for those who feel unceasingly grounded and numbingly stable in their lifes. Whether it be physical, ideological or mental, the hole can be mobilised to re- or destabilise whatever state of being you find yourself in. In any case, it offers to act as an intended interruption to all that appears to be continuous. Depending on the interpretation of the user, the hole can be used to achieve either unbalanced or centered states of mind, body and soul. It can be used to experience (dis)association, have impractical realisations, stimulate physical relocation or wash off unwanted patterns of imposed concepts of meaning. Designed as a pocket-size object, this portable tool is most effective when used spontaneously in one's daily life. Following are seven suggestions on how to use it.

1    SLOW READING (When the eyes are quicker than the mind)
Place the tool on a book or page and read through the hole. Continue until your mind has slowed down.

2    A HOLE IS A MOUTH IS A HOLE (When words have become too meaningful)
Place the tool on a book or page randomly and read through the hole. Navigate the page intuitively and write down the words that resonate with you on the card. When the card is full read them aloud.

3    LOOKING GUIDE (When seeing has become only practical)
Close one eye and look through the hole with the other. When you see something new, take a moment to observe; then stop. Do this excercise three times a day. Optional: realise that you automatically closed one of your eyes. Now instead, close the other. Use your non-dominant eye to look through the hole. Look at your world and consider what it means to be a symmetrical being when noticing you are not.

4    HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (When you feel invisible or want to)
Open the tool and hide your face behind it while looking through both holes. Try to forget about yourself, and look at those around you. Observe how they become aware of being looked at. Acknowledge the power you feel. Remain humble.

5    SUNDIAL (When you feel lost in space)
Place the tool on its side in a sunny spot, in such a way that the light coming through the hole hits the interior of the card. Throughout the day, mark the moving spot and write down the time. At the end of the day sign the card with the location and a new thought you had.

6    SUNDRAWING / TIMEMACHINE (When you feel stuck in space)
Place the tool standing on its side in the sun in such a way that the light coming through the hole lands on the interior of the paper. Mark the card with the starting date. Due to UV exposure sunlit paper will slowly turn darker. Leave the card for some days, until its colour has changed. When you decide it’s finished, mark the card with the ending time and location, and store in a dark spot, don’t look at it anymore. Bring the card with you on your next travel. When you feel most far from home, look at the drawing.

7    PORTAL (When the rapid development of digital technology makes you feel anxious or excited)
Take your phone and open the selfie-camera. Unfold the card and place it on the phone, one hole over the camera, the other somewhere over the screen. Look for traces of ageing in your face through the hole. When found, take a photo. Write down on the card what you saw. Take a photo of the card. Keep the two photos together. Repeat every time you buy a new phone.

Vector drawings of a 'spherified' landscape, study for CryptoFoam for De Onkruidenier.

"In the foam worlds, however, no bubble can be expanded into an absolutely centered, all-encompassing, amphiscopic org; no central light penetrates the entire foam in its dynamic murkiness. Hence the ethics of the decentered, small and middle-sized bubbles in the world foam includes the effort to move about in an unprecedentedly spacious world with an unprecedentedly modest circumspection; in the foam, discrete and polyvalent games of reason must develop that learn to live with a shimmering diversity of perspectives , and dispense with the illusion of the one lordly point of view. Most roads do not lead to Rome-that is the situation, European: recognize it." - Peter Sloterdijk

Untitled, embossing in paper, 297x420mm, 2022

Untitled, embossing, ink on paper, 297x420mm, 2022

Untitled, embossing, ink on paper, 297x210mm, 2022

Study, ceramics, 2021

Untitled, ink on paper, 297x420mm, 2020

Placement variations of 3 elastic bands. Study for Leaving, Returning by Claude Nassar, 2020

Photo of my studio in 2019 with the scan-function of the Dropbox app.

Amounts, dice, 2017

The amount of 1 is the only amount referencing an inside world: the notion of the self, the individual. At the same time, counting one's self inevitably leads to the unconscious recognition of an other amount: namely that which isn't counted. Accordingly so, every amount is as much about the number we give to it as that which isn't part of that amount. Associatively we understand the number 2 as the amount that stands for duality. The right and wrong, the left and right, the black and white, the inner and outer. At the same time, in the counting of two things, one should consider there is always that which is not counted: a void, a nothingness, negativity—whatever you want to name it. Ironically enough, in this light, we can think of the number 2, as the embodiment of the amount of 3. That is, if one is willing to acknowledge nothingness as something. This notion is not about a rational view of counting, rather it offers a holistic point of view that recognizes 'zero' as infinitely part of eveything, always.

Everything is always partly 0 and nothing is only 1.

Study for Meditations on a Circle, tin, sticker, 2016