Graphics-2
With pleasure and some confidence after first year in graphics, decided to continue. Use of ink or paint to produce image by printing or imprinting. Doesn't matter how.
dated 2017 until 2019
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Branches
2019monotype
Viewing different directions
2019If in one image / the looks have the same focus // the decision might become / to go along. // Here, a question / is formulated. (Size image 12.5x15 cm)
Standing before the gate
2018"The gates were made first / to provide a certain distance /
to the landscape. // Then the place of the guard had to be decided / which became before the gate. // Which given the current circumstances / seems appropriate.
lino-cut, 23x32 cm paper size
The twins
2019Printmaking: Monotype, Oil, Paper on Paper. use of thrown-away cans in print, with 'family' as a result. three prints made into one collage, 2018-2019
Still crawling
2019Still crawling, even if / grounds sink into depths // movement does not halt / since elementary urges // have inner bases and / primary resources // of energy. (monoprint image 12x15,56 cm)
Diagram of the mind
2019"Whilst one guide aimed / to keep the design straight / and rectangular (where feasible), the others favored / a more complex model." (monoprint)
Mise-en-scene
2019Le paradoxe / etait mise-en-scene (mixed media monoprint)
The direction
2018Doubt, there is / great doubt / what the direction should be / but there cannot be / a stand still or retreat. (monoprint, size is paper format)
From this side (perspective)
2019"From this side / I share my perspective"
sheer joy
2019"Now, there is no time / for sorrow or grief / for angriness or / greed. // Now, it is time / for sheer joy / just now" (monoprint)
Change
2019"If the situation / will not change drastically / then we're out." (lino-cut, size image 16x22 cm, ed 1/4)
Absent
2019The image is determined by what is absent (monoprint image 12x17 cm)
Collision
2019(monoprint made with discarded carton, with acknowledgements to Jadwiga)
Understanding the causes
2019Understanding the causes / of being and beings / is a task without end. (etching, size image 15x9 cm, ed 1/4)
Transience
2019"Creation of art / interrupts the flux towards transience / for as long as it lasts." (monoprint with collage, size image 13x20 cm, edition 1/1)
The unexpected visitor
2019"An unexpected visitor / came forward" (monoprint, size image 11.5x17 cm)
Meeting
2018Meeting of trees moving / through abstract landscape / a tough journey / made with floating roots" monoprint, 4 phases)
Barricade
2018The essence of a barricade / becomes palpable at visualization (image size 10x15, paper 21x29 cm, ed 1/1)
Elements of speach
2018Elements of speach / do adhere to hearings / when held high, up / against the wall / of difference. monoprint 1/1, image 29x20 cm
the process of thought
2019"The process of thought / knows no better judge / than the outcome." (monoprint, using found objects, size image 18x23 cm)
Naiad
2018"The place, from which the Naiad / raises the arms / in a gesture that / asks attention or silence, // changes continuously/ under pressure / of the space." (monoprint, 10 layers, size image 11x17 cm)
Pathways
2018Walking about / goes through bushes and hedges / with thorns and ticks. // At times pathways / will be chosen / as these were laid down / by predecessors and ancestors /
in an evident logic.
(Etched lino-cut, ed 1/4, size image 16.5 square, paper 23 cm square)
Moving
2018"within a second / the scene will change" (monoprint, size image 11x15 cm)
The Struggle of visionary souls
2018"The struggle of visionary souls / does not know clarity / nor solution and lacks / justification" lithography, size image 19x23 cm, paper 32x45 cm, ed. 1/5)
Hearing
2018Sounds, words, whispers / catched by ears / if present.
(Monoprint, size image 10x15, paper 23x26 cm)
Before (the screen)
2018Solemnity, honesty and character. // Three traits that are on the red list. (mixed media of monoprint and linocut, ed 1/1)
Abstract (ardor)
2018monoprint 1/1
The road
2018The road twines around / the pits on the way / targetting the next level. // Tucked in deep pockets / ambition dozes, to / appear at an unexpected moment. (monoprint, 3 phases, 1/1)
Would old liaisons suffice?
2018"looking in the distance / would old liaisons suffice?"
Listening to a distant sound
2018monoprint and lino-cut, three phases (edition 1/1).
Size 18x26 cm
The mountainfish
2018"The red mountainfish / resides at the border of / green land and yellow sky." (etching, ecoline ink, size image 14x10 cm)
Perception
2018"Activity of inner consciencesness / may hamper or even block / appreciation of outside viewings " (monoprint, one phase)
Intertwined
2019"The movement of dark matter / was retarded when intertwined with threads of red" size image 17x22 cm
"Someone"
2018monoprint, size image 20x12.5 cm, paper 24x15 cm.
Twosome-3
2018The third time / these two met / the absence of / greed, and of anger / was striking / / making words superfluous. (lino-cut, beeld 15x15 cm papier 24x24 cm, edition 1/8)
return of the lost son
2018"When the lost son got bored / of friends and favorities / of commuting without goal / he returned home in order / to dig up familial controverses."
No guns allowed
2018"with ample availibility of poison gas / we no longer accept use of guns." <monoprint, 2 phases, edition 1/2>
Crossing-3
2018"The belief in symbols / provides no insight / in the strength / of layers that / support the naked existence." monoprint, 2-phases
Balance
2017"standing on two feet / arms positioned at / the right side / and the left, / for one minute / there is the illusion / of inner balance." (etching, size of image 11x11 cm)
Conondrum
2018"Circulation between different / sections should enable / exchange of varying views / and perceptions of / what?" monprint, 2 phases
Asymmetric
2018The basis for asymmetry / is a central axis. //
The position, superior / or inferior / is a different issue. (monoprint, 2 phases)
The expectator
2018"the expectator / waits for meaning, for content / and, if that should not arrive / at least for significance" monoprint plus etching, 3 phases
Twosome-2
2018"no comment" monotype / monoprint, 2-phases, size image 11x15 cm, edition 1/1
The Meeting
2017Once the past / meets the future / tentacles touch. (image itself 11.5x8 cm, HxW, I/III)
At Once
2017"Confronted with the result / of my earlier doings // I decided to deny / all allegations // and to leave / at once." (monoprint, 1/1)