Engagement
A person can be fully committed to understand a specific text, to play a game, to build a place up to a point that the self more or less vanishes in this passionate attention. Engagement is more and more connected to notions of authenticity. One can be as authentic on a piece of land as on Facebook. Engagement is a qualifying factor for authentity in on- and offline worlds.
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Cuteness overload, it's a tool just like any other
A journalist friend of mine once told me, if you want folks to pay extra attention to what you have…
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Osdorp land of milk and honey
On the western edge of Amsterdam is a living example of rural fantasy, a stone’s throw from densely…
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Permaculture relationships
Permaculture is a design discipline for emphasizing the relationship between natural processes. The…
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Public Space in progress
On the way home from some meetings to possible collaboration with local groups on landscaping…
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Taking control while giving room
The more you take control as an artist, the more you can send or guide the experience. Without a…
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Seeing how others are looking
The viewers often don’t want to interrupt each other’s view. Which creates a funny situation when…
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Paintings
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The Game
Compare it to the games children play. They play war games, play death, they long for a game full…
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Interrogation of the soul
As a child I often looked at the images from the life of Christ during mass. Above the altar a…
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Methods for painting
My work consists of the creating and painting of fictitious events. I stage the drama in my studio.
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Why do we give fictitious testimony?
The testimonies may be fictitious but the sentiments we have experienced are not. As a means to…
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Testimonies
In 1992 a transport plane crashed into two blocks of flats in the district Bijlmermeer in Amsterdam.
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The fabulous illiterate cooks from the PTA
The lesson is to create a platform for mutual expertise.
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Onshore/Offshore
These containers are meant for cargo, not for people. In the container a light bulb was hanging on…
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Not so idle youth
Is it possible to correct the notion that occupation and use of the public space is not an act of…
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The Brooklyn Bridge Witness
Are there places and views that exemplify the ultimate experience of a city? Are some moments in…