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
Wind ripples. Ripples, in English. The sea creates them on the beach when the water retreats at low tide. The wind creates them in the drifting sand in the dunes. On a very windy day on the beach of IJmuiden I saw how they formed.
Her name is Zazia and she lives or lived in Ukraine. I would so much like to know: is she still alive? How is she doing? I have a photo of her, with hair waving in the wind. The ice-cold storm from the east had
For centuries we have projected our lives onto those of gods, animals, objects. And: onto those of trees. ‘Gnome trees’, we call giants with a hollow at the base. Under a linden tree many hundreds of years old, we place an honorable plaque with the
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The nose is already a striking facial feature, but placed in an empty landscape it stands out even more. Since I made this nose, I can no longer watch TV without commenting on the noses that pass by. My nose was not made after an
The British collector reported at the auction: this piece of jewelry originates from the Middle East. It was made 300 years before Christ. A golden grape cluster measuring 6 by 3 by 10 millimeters. Very small, therefore. After purchase, the ‘Certificate of Authenticity’ stated that
