My Own Artworks

Eve’s Roots

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 […]

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9000 BC: Domestication

‘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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Jesus and Mary

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

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King Forkbeard

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

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The First Monk

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

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Tropical Nights

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

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