De Aanschouw 1189 (2024)
Joke Olthaar asked me to make a work for De Aanschouw in Rotterdam. I accepted the offer with gratitude. In my head the project kept me occupied from the start. I am not easily satisfied, so, every idea I had ended up in the garbage can. More and more I got fed up by the conceptual questioning, critical thinking and self criticism that comes naturally to me. The outcome was always the same, I destroy the work In my head before it is even made. Then I remembered reading a book by Henk Oosterling titled "Waar geen wil is, is een weg" (where there is no will, there is a way). I thought well perhaps! I only have to get rid of my wil, my mind, my conceptual thinking, my judging and my conscious relation with reality. How difficult can that be? I phoned up a friend and we planned to go to Brussels to do a photographic experiment. With just a little bit of direction and pre-understanding we went on photographing for days. While the result was a bit disappointing to me, the experiment was a succes. I pressed the shutter without too much thinking. Driving my bike to my atelier I spotted an interesting package near a garbage bin. Somebody had put I there to throw away, I took it with me and put in the same evening in the Aanschouw. 18/07/2024
WHERE REALITY MEETS DREAMS 2021
These series of photos, Violina Jeliazkova made revolve around the everlasting fascination for nature in a world where reality meets dreams.
RANDOM WORKS OF BEAUTY 2021
These series consists of random works me and Violina Jeliazkova made during our stay in an anti squat greenhouse in Naaldwijk.
WASHI WORKS, 2021
This series consist of client portraits on Japanese Washi paper, that I worked on with a knife, a dremel, (spray)paint and sanding paper.
DEAD MAN TELL NO TALES, 2020
The work of Cromagnon - a cooperation project between me and Raymond de Vries - is a photographical investigation into the State of Being of Western Man. Cromagnon insists in creating images that focus on the very basics of Man, hence the Cromagnon. The Method consists merely of exercises. We will investigate a subject in an eccentric movement without the wish – or possibility – to reach the centre or an endpoint. We don’t have a mission, We circle around a subject when they reach the centre we leave it again.
CHERRY SERIES, 2020
An experiment in working with fruits on portraits.
Yakushima Mon Amour, 2017
Yakushima Mon Amour is a project collaboration between me and VIolina Jeliazkova. Yakushima is an island in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, known for its wildlife and cedar forests. Some of the trees one the island are said to be more than 7000 thousand years old. You feel there presence. the atmosphere on the island is unbelievable. Everywhere is human, that's true, but on Yakushima you feel there absence. The black and white work at the end of the series Is a 4 meters long panoramic collage of different pictures made by Violina..
CROMAGNON EXERCISE ARTISTS, 2015
The work of Cromagnon - a cooperation project between me and Raymond de Vries - is a photographical investigation into the State of Being of Western Man. Cromagnon insists in creating images that focus on the very basics of Man, hence the Cromagnon. The Method consists merely of exercises. We will investigate a subject in an eccentric movement without the wish – or possibility – to reach the centre or an endpoint. We don’t have a mission, We circle around a subject when they reach the centre we leave it again.
MEIN ANGST , 2013
Short series that evolves around the concept of fear.
CROMAGNON - KOMO SERIES, 2013
The work of Cromagnon - a cooperation project between me and Raymond de Vries - is a photographical investigation into the State of Being of Western Man. Cromagnon insists in creating images that focus on the very basics of Man, hence the Cromagnon. The Method consists merely of exercises. We will investigate a subject in an eccentric movement without the wish – or possibility – to reach the centre or an endpoint. We don’t have a mission, We circle around a subject when they reach the centre we leave it again.
