Last summer I was sitting at the swimming pool to keep an eye on my kids when I spotted these two teenagers. The girl was about 15 years old and she obviously had grown real fast lately. Her arms and legs were long and skinny and she was having trouble to figure out what to [...]
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Ten to One
Ten friends having a meal on ten consecutive days in field in the Dutch countryside. Each day the friends, the tables and the food were shifted closer to the horizon. The photographs of the ten meals were assembled into a single image of a large party. Each friend appears ten times in the photograph, each [...]
Nov
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The storm
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn’t something that blew in from far away, something [...]
Aug
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Nostalgia
They say that just before you enter heaven you’ll see your life pass before your eyes. Usually imagined as a fast-forward flip book of sentimental still images: birth, parents, school, holiday, first girlfriend, first sex, job, wife, kids, etc. and all the little things in between, summating a totality of meagre existence in a split [...]
Are you my friend?
I met a lot of interesting, talented and funny people lately. They are located in different countries all over the world. We follow each other’s activities, we share dreams and thoughts, we make plans and we even party together …….
And it’s all happening in a virtual world.
I never expected to find myself chatting with complete [...]
Jun
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Do you think you stand out from the crowd?
When I was in high school there was this group of kids whom I considered to be really cool and I desperately wanted to join this group. So I asked my parents for the same (expensive) sneakers they wore convinced that would do the trick. My mum then bought me the cheap fakes, which off [...]
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 feeling [...]
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 [...]
Dawn
Ruud van Empel used to design, among other things, the sets for the wacky misadventures of my absolute favorite Dutch television series for kids called Theo & Thea. I was still in art school back then, studying scenography, and he was one of my inspirators. So at first when I heard of his decision in [...]
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Looking aside
A couple of weeks ago I read an article about albinism in Africa. Albinism is a congenital disorder that affects skin pigmentation. In most African countries it can lead to expulsion and discrimination. Albinism is referred to as ‘sope’, meaning something magical inhabited by powerful evil spirits; albinos sometimes are even hunted for their body [...]