Imagine yourself driving in the Dutch countryside and all of a sudden on an empty road in the middle of nowhere there is this bridge. Thank god it’s a quiet road because I can imagine you hit the breaks, u-turn or do other wacky actions just to get another look. The bridge, located in Sneek [...]
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Author Archives: White Rabbit
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Little Red Riding Hood
Little girls, this seems to say, Never stop upon your way. Never trust a stranger-friend; No one knows how it will end. As you’re pretty, so be wise: Wolves may lurk in every guise’. As a little girl Hinke Schreuders used to dream about being Little Red Riding Hood. Wandering in a dark wood she [...]
Gone With The Wind
A long walk at the beach made me think about my roots. I grew up near Scheveningen, which is an old fisherman’s village where women used to wear beautiful traditional costumes. When I was a little girl there already weren’t many woman left who actually wore these costumes but my friends grandma was one of [...]
Apr
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Lost-Persons
I once met someone who collected old family portraits because he felt sorry for the people in it. He thought that they would be very sad knowing they ended up in a garbage can because nobody cared anymore, so he made it his task to save them. It was a wonderful story and the same [...]
Apr
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Pancha Tantra
Surfing the net, not looking for anything in particulair .. STOP, what is this? .. Walton Ford, who is .. how is it possible I .. want that .. have to go to New York .. absolutely .. Taschen website .. Panacha Tantra .. ”I can’t afford one of his paintings (or even this book) but I can [...]
Apr
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Made in China
Seemingly innocent children toys act as a kind of space invaders emerging from a world hidden inside our childhood memories. Here they invade antique Chinese furniture, threatening their traditional past. These toys reveal a surreal and terrifying landscape of derailed trains, drowning babies, crashing planes and wild dinosaurs. They make me question my self-constructed environments, [...]
Solid Poetry
It has been really nice weather for quite a while now but make no mistake; I live in a country where it actually rains a lot. Like most people here I hate rain! It seems some Dutch designers got inspired by that sentiment. First Gerwin Hoogendoorn came up with the SENZ, a truly revolutionary umbrella. Now, Frederik [...]
Apr
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Let the plants design!
Sometimes I forget about an artist for a while. So when I rediscovered the Namaiki book in my libary I googeled them to see what they’re up to these days. What a pleasant surprise! Namaiki which means naughty or rebel in Japanese is actually graphic designer David Duval Smith and architect Michael Frank. They’ve been [...]
Apr
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Temporary Sculpture
Combining the silence of Edward Muybridge’s pictures with the association-rich composition of a still life, Martin Klimas breaks recognizable objects so they become something else, and stops us just at the moment of transformation. And it’s this moment of transformation that provides for us something that we normally cannot see. It is an in-between state where [...]
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New traces of the brush
Actually I didn’t know much about Chinese calligraphy techniques but since this work (HAN) caught my attention I did a little research. So I learned that to understand Chinese calligraphy first thing you have to know that in Chinese society script has a close connection with language and art. There was a huge difference. In [...]