Eve’s Roots tells my story about Eve, after Lilith the second woman in the earthly paradise. But did she really come from Adam’s rib? If not, where did she come from then? Where are her roots? Eve’s Roots, carved from the white sapwood of American […]
‘9000 BC: Domestication’, in other words: how humanity began living together with animals 9000 years before Christ. Sheep would have been domesticated first, then goats and dogs. That message is hidden in this elm wood sculpture, in which a hand symbolically pushes aside the curtain.
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3 Sirens as a symbol of enchantment, seduction, deadly danger. I worked on this lime wood sculpture intermittently in 2024. The Sirens first appeared in the Odyssey, in which Homer told about the travels across the Mediterranean Sea by the Greek hero Odysseus. 3 Sirens,
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Jesus and Mary. In nine saw cuts. That’s all it takes to saw the silhouette of a woman from a yew trunk. Mary. I added a medallion to her ‘pregnant’ belly, in which a smiling face is hidden. That of Jesus. Jesus and Mary. She
The Owl of Minerva has landed, in the society of the Minerva student association in Leiden. My first commission for a large wooden sculpture of 60 centimeters in height and 22.5 kilos in weight. The students were super enthusiastic at the informal unveiling in their
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The Walk Art Market in Zeist was for me a first market exploration at a well-attended art market, at the stand of our sculptors’ association ‘Guts en Klopper’. And that’s more fun to experience than I thought. Enjoyable. The audience was willing. Cheerful. The sun
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I find it fascinating how in TV series history is dramatized to make a story exciting, full of ‘cliffhangers’. The streaming services go quite wild with their series about Vikings. In their primitive villages, Viking women emerge with complicated hairstyles as if they had spent
Once there was a first of everything. Or: the first. Saint Anthony Abbot was the very first monk in the world. Known to us as Saint Anthony the Abbot, he lived from 251 to 356 AD. He withdrew as a hermit to the eastern desert
The heat of the tropical night. The ocean black and blue. A mouth tells stories. A memory of Bonaire, the paradise of the Netherlands in the Caribbean. The history of carving in wood began with a flat surface. Beginning wood carvers also start with a
