Isn't this where we met?, 2022

A family of streetlights is traveling around. Here they found a place to rest and present themselves in a crowded, former jail.

This inside place feels gloomy. They try to lighten it up, but it doesn't seem to be working...

At Bijlmer Bajes, 2022

What was left over from my experience of this place? A reconstruction by memory a few weeks after I've worked here.

As long as it is in good intent, 2022

An installation that boosts the appearance of Lexi the Chestnut tree.

Lexi is one of two chestnut trees that were planted around 200 years ago on a private property midst of nature reserve de Veluwe. In the reserve the chestnut is a foreigner that made it's arrival by human hands. Now it's a healthy tree that can keep themselves healthy and happy. But still it receives human help in the form of extra water,  several wooden aids and cleaning after to present Lexi in their best way possible.

As long as it is in good intent, 2022

// Beech

Part of an installation that boosts the appearance of Lexi the Chestnut tree.

Lexi is one of two chestnut trees that were planted around 200 years ago on a private property midst of nature reserve de Veluwe. In the reserve the chestnut is a foreigner that made it's arrival by human hands. Now it's a healthy tree that can keep themselves healthy and happy. But still it receives human help in the form of extra water,  several wooden aids and cleaning after to present Lexi in their best way possible.

Beech bucks to show a lost branch that was broken off during heavy weather a year ago.

As long as it is in good intent, 2022

// Spruce

Part of an installation that boosts the appearance of Lexi the Chestnut tree.

Lexi is one of two chestnut trees that were planted around 200 years ago on a private property midst of nature reserve de Veluwe. In the reserve the chestnut is a foreigner that made it's arrival by human hands. Now it's a healthy tree that can keep themselves healthy and happy. But still it receives human help in the form of extra water,  several wooden aids and cleaning after to present Lexi in their best way possible.

Spruce is a supporting structure to lift a heavy branch of Lexi.

As long as it is in good intent, 2022

// Birch

Part of an installation that boosts the appearance of Lexi the Chestnut tree.

Lexi is one of two chestnut trees that were planted around 200 years ago on a private property midst of nature reserve de Veluwe. In the reserve the chestnut is a foreigner that made it's arrival by human hands. Now it's a healthy tree that can keep themselves healthy and happy. But still it receives human help in the form of extra water,  several wooden aids and cleaning after to present Lexi in their best way possible.

Birch is a cushion  to soften the  touch between Lexi and the spruce crane.

As long as it is in good intent, 2022

// Chestnut

Part of an installation that boosts the appearance of Lexi the Chestnut tree.

Lexi is one of two chestnut trees that were planted around 200 years ago on a private property midst of nature reserve de Veluwe. In the reserve the chestnut is a foreigner that made it's arrival by human hands. Now it's a healthy tree that can keep themselves healthy and happy. But still it receives human help in the form of extra water,  several wooden aids and cleaning after to present Lexi in their best way possible.

Chestnut is a prothesis for a long-lost branch that came off. It has a solarpanel that feeds the tree, just like organic leaves.

As long as it is in good intent, 2022

// Oak

Part of an installation that boosts the appearance of Lexi the Chestnut tree.

Lexi is one of two chestnut trees that were planted around 200 years ago on a private property midst of nature reserve de Veluwe. In the reserve the chestnut is a foreigner that made it's arrival by human hands. Now it's a healthy tree that can keep themselves healthy and happy. But still it receives human help in the form of extra water,  several wooden aids and cleaning after to present Lexi in their best way possible.

Oak is a fence that keeps humans from tripping over their roots.

Heel Krommetje, 2022

It tried to copy a piece of a streetlight, but it isn't a streetlight.

It tried to copy steel, but it isn't made of steel.

It's a piece of wood trying to be something else. It was pretty convincing. Too bad the years pass by and the age is starting to show. You can’t alter how wood will age. It is just so different than steel. It is beautiful though.

Fitting Profiles II, 2022

Aluminium, 2022

The materials that are commonly found in a hammer  are switched back and forth and, in doing so, are resulting in a strange combination

Isn't this where we met?, 2022

A family of lanterns converging on a roundabout up north, bringing with them the question on how they came together. In this get-together the question they ask themselves can also be asked to you.

Isn’t this where we met?

Thanks Voorheen de Gemeente for giving me this opportunity

Douglas, 2022

A douglas copy of a tool that is mostly made with an steel head.

The grain in the wood is not only visible in the colour of the wood, but is also physically enhanced in it's skin.

Spruce, 2022

A spruce copy of a tool that is mostly made with an steel head.

Fitting Profiles, 2022

In the last few years a couple of wooden skyscrapers were build around the world. Where as the conventional skyscrapers are mostly build with heaps of concrete and steel limbs or profiles, the new ones replaced those materials with potentially way eco-friendlier wood.

Profiles are normally made of steel. The form allows the construction to be lighter while keeping most of it's strength. These are made of wood and are still somewhat metallike.

Complementary H, 2022

A wooden H-profile.

Wood is such a different material than metal. It behaves different, It feels different.

Half Krommetje, 2022

It tried to copy a piece of a streetlight, but it isn't a streetlight.

It tried to copy steel, but it isn't made of steel.

It's a piece of wood trying to be something else. It was pretty convincing. Too bad the years pass by and the age is starting to show. You can’t alter how wood will age. It is just so different than steel. It is beautiful though.

Isn't this where we met?, 2021

Wooden copies of several streetlights at Kunststroming2021

By making copies with a material I know with the tips of my fingers I get to know certain infrastructure-objects in a more touchy way. The copy is helping me to place certain objects in its network of being.

Follow the Line // Crossing the Field 2021

As presented during Festival de Oversteek. Special thanks to Derde Wal.

Power lines that cross entire countries by cutting through the landscape.

Follow the Line, 2021

Presented during Prospects '21.

The pylon placed outside, but still connected to it's sibling inside.

The pylon has a rainlike scent.

If it's raining the electric resistance of air drops so it is more likely that the electricity will jump from one wire to the other. This phenomenon is called a corona because of the shape the electricity makes when it escapes.

At V.Nelle, 2021

Crossing the Field, 2021

Presented during Prospects '21.

The pylon placed inside, but still connected to it's sibling outside.

The pylon has a rainlike scent.

If it's raining the electric resistance of air drops so it is more likely that the electricity will jump from one wire to the other. This phenomenon is called a corona because of the shape the electricity makes when it escapes.

At circa...dit II, 2021

New projectspace of circa...dit.

Wet Wood, 2021

The rain wets the dry soil

Smells of wood and dirt

Outside is sooo fine

Driftwood, 2021

Flipflop drifting at sea

At home, 2021

The most viewed view of 2020. A place I worked in that's quite familiar to me.