zondag 13 december 2009
Light & Creamer
A sculpture of light toped of with a coffee creamer cup, trangely looking like a hat. The gray cylinder and the blue surroundings bring out the green of the light shining through the cup. All the components contrast and compliment each other, creating something unexplainable but nice to look at.
Interesting Sights
“There is never nothing going on” and “there are no ordinary moments” quotes out of the movie peaceful warrior are a good summary of what I will be telling and showing you here.
If you take a close look at your surroundings - a real look, with your mind focused on it and not your daily worries and troublesome thoughts – you will notice more then you ever have. Just because you are focused on it and not paying attention to your thoughts.
A few of these moments a worth mentioning, because they were so extraordinary and a great deal of fun.
Bicycle Intestines
when I look closely at this saddle it started to look like intestines, spilling out of an open wound. I don’t think it has got long to live.
A Bridge to Far
I tried to get to Rotterdam. I knew that there would be train-travelling delays because of the snow, but I couldn’t have known that a boat was going to ram the bridge. So I took a little longer then expected. The irony of this story is in this sign I saw on the platform:
The sign says: risk of travelling. The bridge you see above the text is the bridge that got rammed.
Slippery Snow
This is what I saw lying in the snow one morning. A weird and unusual sight especially this time of year. I wonder what happened that made this sight came to be. I think that a very cold resistant girl who was so confused and thought it was summer. Wile walking through the snow someone she passed got offended by what she was wearing and started chasing her. She had to flee and in her attempt she lost her slipper.
Burning Astray
Seeing an astray smoke on its own, not needing the smoking smoker is a sight that makes you laugh when you see it on your way home from you night out. Even then, disorientated, hungry and tiered, you wonder what huge cigar was thrown in there to make it burn like that. Or what else could have been down there that could burn and produce this much smoke?
Tub out Back
This bathtub I found in the bushes near my studio. Not only did I think it was terribly funny but I also started to wonder how this bathtub got here. What is a bathtub doing on this abandoned waste processing plant? Who was using it? And what for was it used? You can have a lot of fun with ordinary things, just because they are ripped out of context and/or you are able to create weird, funny, horrible or boring (what ever you want) stories around and about it.
Food Bombardment
This is what I found on the street one Sunday. It was a terribly funny sight, to see a pan imbedded in the pavement and its contend scattered around it. Its glass lit however survived the fall unscarred. Seeing this makes you wonder what might have happened that caused this. Was there a fight about the food? Or was it so bad that it was thrown out? Or maybe the serenade a guy was playing outside was so bad that food with the pan still around it was thrown at him? We will never know what really happened.
The Van of St. Klaas
Why does he ride in the back of a van? Where is his horse? And where are all the kids that normally surround this figure? I had a lot of fun watching him ride by, alone in the back of his cheap looking van.
If you take a close look at your surroundings - a real look, with your mind focused on it and not your daily worries and troublesome thoughts – you will notice more then you ever have. Just because you are focused on it and not paying attention to your thoughts.
A few of these moments a worth mentioning, because they were so extraordinary and a great deal of fun.
Bicycle Intestines
when I look closely at this saddle it started to look like intestines, spilling out of an open wound. I don’t think it has got long to live.
A Bridge to Far
I tried to get to Rotterdam. I knew that there would be train-travelling delays because of the snow, but I couldn’t have known that a boat was going to ram the bridge. So I took a little longer then expected. The irony of this story is in this sign I saw on the platform:
The sign says: risk of travelling. The bridge you see above the text is the bridge that got rammed.
Slippery Snow
This is what I saw lying in the snow one morning. A weird and unusual sight especially this time of year. I wonder what happened that made this sight came to be. I think that a very cold resistant girl who was so confused and thought it was summer. Wile walking through the snow someone she passed got offended by what she was wearing and started chasing her. She had to flee and in her attempt she lost her slipper.
Burning Astray
Seeing an astray smoke on its own, not needing the smoking smoker is a sight that makes you laugh when you see it on your way home from you night out. Even then, disorientated, hungry and tiered, you wonder what huge cigar was thrown in there to make it burn like that. Or what else could have been down there that could burn and produce this much smoke?
Tub out Back
This bathtub I found in the bushes near my studio. Not only did I think it was terribly funny but I also started to wonder how this bathtub got here. What is a bathtub doing on this abandoned waste processing plant? Who was using it? And what for was it used? You can have a lot of fun with ordinary things, just because they are ripped out of context and/or you are able to create weird, funny, horrible or boring (what ever you want) stories around and about it.
Food Bombardment
This is what I found on the street one Sunday. It was a terribly funny sight, to see a pan imbedded in the pavement and its contend scattered around it. Its glass lit however survived the fall unscarred. Seeing this makes you wonder what might have happened that caused this. Was there a fight about the food? Or was it so bad that it was thrown out? Or maybe the serenade a guy was playing outside was so bad that food with the pan still around it was thrown at him? We will never know what really happened.
The Van of St. Klaas
Why does he ride in the back of a van? Where is his horse? And where are all the kids that normally surround this figure? I had a lot of fun watching him ride by, alone in the back of his cheap looking van.
Acts of Kindness
These things really make me happy, if I am already happy it just makes me want to cry out and dance (badly). I don’t know why they happen and if they happen to you (they probably do), but they happen; once in a wile someone with out beings asked too gives you something or performs a kind act. Such an event always leaves me speechless and with butterflies of joy in my stomach.
But I guess to most of them you have to pay attention to notice and appreciate them. So keep your eyes open and remember “give and you shall receive”.
Friday the 4th of December
I was sitting in the train and out of nowhere the women next to me offers me her newspaper, which was strangely enough what I wanted. So it was given to me without me asking for it, a strange sensation. Even though it was just a newspaper, the gesture was – as they say – a heart warming one.
Monday the 7th of December
A Girl a barely know gives me my name in chocolate letters because only an hour before I told here that I didn’t get one with ‘Sinterklaas’. I didn’t know what say; nobody has ever done something like that for me before. Not only did this make me feel happy beyond belief, but also made a few questions rise up in my mind: Do I deserve this? Am I this kind? How can she be so kind? Is it just me, because she likes me, or is she this kind to everybody?
I don’t know the answers to these questions, I might never know. But just asking myself these questions makes the gift even more valuable.
But I guess to most of them you have to pay attention to notice and appreciate them. So keep your eyes open and remember “give and you shall receive”.
Friday the 4th of December
I was sitting in the train and out of nowhere the women next to me offers me her newspaper, which was strangely enough what I wanted. So it was given to me without me asking for it, a strange sensation. Even though it was just a newspaper, the gesture was – as they say – a heart warming one.
Monday the 7th of December
A Girl a barely know gives me my name in chocolate letters because only an hour before I told here that I didn’t get one with ‘Sinterklaas’. I didn’t know what say; nobody has ever done something like that for me before. Not only did this make me feel happy beyond belief, but also made a few questions rise up in my mind: Do I deserve this? Am I this kind? How can she be so kind? Is it just me, because she likes me, or is she this kind to everybody?
I don’t know the answers to these questions, I might never know. But just asking myself these questions makes the gift even more valuable.
donderdag 26 november 2009
the Hand Job
This all started with the finding of a mannequin’s hand. With some imagination the possibilities are endless. Not only is there a lot of fun to be had with a plastic hand but also a lot of word jokes can be made.
handsome
Hands on
hands off
hands up
hands
talk to the hand
handjob
handy
hand out
high five
de handen uit de mouwen steken
de hand van god
een hand boven het hoofd houden
handig
onhandig
bijdehand
onhandelbaar
handelbaar
een helpende hand toesteken
iemand de hand schudden
handtastelijk
handtas
handdoek
met harde hand regeren
handtastelijk
handen thuis houden
een hand vol ....
(on)vaste hand
slappe handjes
losse handjes
handgebaren
hardhandig
met de vlakke hand
vinger in de pap hebben
op 1 hand te tellen
velen handen maken licht werk
After more time spent on the ‘hand’ I started thinking about the importance of our hands and the creative, historic and cultural value they have. Just try to imagine the significance of our hands and what they mean to us. Or try to grasp they idea of not having hands, that humanity never had hands at all. What would the world look like today if we didn’t have them?
So having fun can make you think about the things we normally take for granted. I hope you appreciate your hands.
handsome
Hands on
hands off
hands up
hands
talk to the hand
handjob
handy
hand out
high five
de handen uit de mouwen steken
de hand van god
een hand boven het hoofd houden
handig
onhandig
bijdehand
onhandelbaar
handelbaar
een helpende hand toesteken
iemand de hand schudden
handtastelijk
handtas
handdoek
met harde hand regeren
handtastelijk
handen thuis houden
een hand vol ....
(on)vaste hand
slappe handjes
losse handjes
handgebaren
hardhandig
met de vlakke hand
vinger in de pap hebben
op 1 hand te tellen
velen handen maken licht werk
After more time spent on the ‘hand’ I started thinking about the importance of our hands and the creative, historic and cultural value they have. Just try to imagine the significance of our hands and what they mean to us. Or try to grasp they idea of not having hands, that humanity never had hands at all. What would the world look like today if we didn’t have them?
So having fun can make you think about the things we normally take for granted. I hope you appreciate your hands.
dinsdag 17 november 2009
Bobbing Coffee Sculpture
This is abstract sculpture of a neurotic coffee addict. You can see how ridged ad jittery he is, even on this photograph
Chopstick Art
This composition of chopsticks is a reflection of the T-shirt, a reaction to acupuncture and it shows great contrast between death (the sticks) and life (the human body).
Boring Sculpture
This is an expression of a boring lecture. It’s creation was a great way to get my mind of things and the result really visualises what I was feeling that moment.
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