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 2019
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Twosome-2
2018"no comment" monotype / monoprint, 2-phases, size image 11x15 cm, edition 1/1
Change
2019"If the situation / will not change drastically / then we're out." (lino-cut, size image 16x22 cm, ed 1/4)
All of Us
2019"All of us / accepts no exception" (monotype, image 11x9 cm)
The expectator
2018"the expectator / waits for meaning, for content / and, if that should not arrive / at least for significance" monoprint, linocut plus etching, 3 phases
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)
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
Conondrum
2018"Circulation between different / sections should enable / exchange of varying views / and perceptions of / what?" monprint, 2 phases
Asymmetric
2018
The basis for asymmetry / is a central axis. //
The position, superior / or inferior / is a different issue.
(monoprint, 2 phases)
Crossing-3
2018"The belief in symbols / provides no insight / in the strength / of layers that / support the naked existence." monoprint, 2-phases
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)
Turns
2018
"Is it instability, that leads to turmoil,
or doubt, that makes you turn, or is it...?"
(monoprint, 5 layers, image size 10x17.5 cm).
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)
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)
In the air
2017The flat plane / invites for a flight.
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)
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)
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."
Underground (sympathy)
2017Seeking for sympathy / the paint streams from / undergound to surface. plaster-cut
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?"
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)
floating-2
2017"A statue / should not be floating" (monoprint, lower part made with template)
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
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)
Filaments-2
2016"There were two motions / one violent and fierce / the other subtle and weak. // The first succumbed." Monoprint
A windless day
2016The apparent structures / can be explained / in various ways. (monoprint, 32x24 cm)
The happy loser
2016mixed media, monoprint plus parts of feather.
Steering of motion
2016
"The motion is upwards / at least for some time / as seen from the inbuild spectator."
(monoprint, in private collection)
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)