Graphics-1
After some years of experience with assemblage, collage, a start was made with graphics in 2016. What can be expressed with monoprint in one or more layers, with etching, lino-cut...?
dated 2016 until 2017
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Dazing
2017monoprint, one-phase, edition 1/1
In the air
2017The flat plane / invites for a flight.
Compassion
2017"Compassion arises / from the condition that / all elements are at the right place." (monoprint, 2 phases) In private collection, destroyed at fire.
Lucie
2017"Lucie arose and came to the spot where I was, sitting with Rachel...." (based upon from Canto 2, Dante's Divina Comedia, Inferno)
Underground (sympathy)
2017Seeking for sympathy / the paint streams from / undergound to surface. plaster-cut
Fortuitious
2016"It was not my intention to do harm / or to spread fear. // Neither was it my intention to be artistic. // It just so happened." Monoprint
Characters
2016"Characters / stand alone or in union, / opposed to coalition / and prepared for conflict, or they sing / of longing for / a certain harmony" (silkscreen 2016, poem 2020)
The track today
2017"The track planned for today / did not seem to be safe. // Our guide proposed / we should take the other one." (monoprint)
A certain aim
2017"A movement, / if not circular / is supposed to serve / a particular aim. // But what, / if a stand still / under the circumstances / is the optimal / condition?"
floating-2
2017"A statue / should not be floating" (monoprint, lower part made with template)
The Hat
2017This artist will not mistake / anyone for a hat. // The person under the hat, though / has it's own feeling about / being part of an art-peace. monoprint, paint on journal on paper.
Passage
2017"The traveller had followed / the indicated path for one day, / when doubt arose / about the possible passage." monoprint
No Symbol
2017"The mere fact / that six fingers are cross / with my thumb / should not be seen / as symbolic." monoprint (1/1)
Censorship - I
2017There is no censorship. Period. // There is no www.censorship.com signed: the censor
Tantrum - I
2017"There must be significance / in the absence or presence / of the letter E." (lino-cut, n = 8) size image 13x18 cm, size paper 24x32 cm
Actually
2017“Although the composition / seen in abstract light / might seem a scene from Exodus / I had a different view in mind / actually”. (lino-cut, printed, image 14x18 cm, paper 24x32 cm)
A shelf is not a knife
2017A shelf is not / a knife. // A thought is not / necessary something / to remember / apart from those / I have forgotten. (private collection)
In the presence (of light)
2017In the presence of light / color becomes visible / and fading has begun. (monoprint)
Alongside
2017"When representants / of your kind / stand alongside / it provides a sense / of security. // However / wait till the essence of speach / penetrates you..." monoprint
What if (a bridge)
2017What if / a bridge exists / only in your dream? / and the abyss / before you / is real? (lino cut, size of image 15x13, size of paper 20x18cm)
Submerged
2016"The issue whether you drown or not / when being submerged / is related to the taste of the pudding." monoprint, size of image 10x14 cm, total size of print on paper 24x36 cm (selection beneficial auction The Art of Medicine Gala, Florida, USA, http://theartofmedicinefoundation.org/)
Beyond meaning
2016etching; size of print 15x10 cm, size of paper 24x19 cm
Elementary Movement
2016"Elementary movement / is the going of basic elements / separated in one composition." (monoprint, screen printing, collage; in private collection)
A windless day
2016The apparent structures / can be explained / in various ways. (monoprint, 32x24 cm)
Filaments-2
2016"There were two motions / one violent and fierce / the other subtle and weak. // The first succumbed." Monoprint
The happy loser
2016mixed media, monoprint plus parts of feather.
Filaments-1
2016"Filaments mingle with / sprouts of meaning / in patches of color. // Where are the sounds?, listen!" monoprint, size 16x24 cm
Steering of motion
2016"The motion is upwards / at least for some time / as seen from the inbuild spectator."
(monoprint, in private collection)
The leaping frog
2016"Our brain filters new images through the screen of earlier ones" Monoprint, size 16x24 cm in total.
On the Way
2016(this monoprint measures 16x24 cm in total)
Doucement
2016"No image, on board / save for my lack of sense / pertains a vein / of persuasion / able to freeze / my fear of beauty" (private collection)