This is my application for the Amsterdam Light Festival 2018. This year I was not selected to go through the second round. The theme for 2018 is ‘The Medium is the Message. Below you can read the description of my light installation called ‘Don’t Walk’. Do you dare to walk through or will you wait and obey? In the middle …
I have applied for the Amsterdam Light Festival edition 2017. My application did get to the second round. But it has not been selected to be finalized. I don’t know the reason why ‘UnU’ has not been selected. I have mixed feelings about this endeavor. I am kind of proud of being selected in the first place. I also think …
Flowers and Netherlands are connected to each other. The Dutch flower auction is the largest in the world. In addition, flowers have a cultural and historical impact on the Netherlands. From this idea arose the glass flowers pyramid ‘Lambertus’. Lambertus is inspired by a flower pyramid which is on display at the Rijksmuseum (BK-2004-4-A). The original is made around 1700 …
Today I came across this. Two balls were lying in the water. I was thinking of all the times me or one of my friends shot a soccer ball in the water. Most the times we used rocks to let the balls drift to the shore. The waves of the rocks would make the ball move. It was always tricky …
I have worked for 8 years in the museum world, so I have seen a lot of museums and their art. I like museums, I like what they do, represent and what they try to achieve. But museum have their constraints in the way they present their art. Sometimes museum feel like a police state, with signs, rules and guards. …