real life? in photos
Photography, or 'light-writing': Sometimes I don't want to improve or change reality. She is fantastic as she is.
dated 2013 until 2019
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Steps and stones
2019"When the last step was taken / and the wall became in sight / there was no reason to return / nor to continue along the path."
Connection
2019When the image tries to connect to earlier experience, and fails, then there is a new experience (port of Thessaloniki, May 2019)
Distance
2018"the distance is safe / to some extent / and if kept fixed / in time and place" (Photo in N France, size image 30x23.5 cm, paper 34x27.5 cm)
Size
2018Some say / I should creates larger artworks. // Now, this is large enough / not to say / one size fits all. (print in ltd edition, n=6, price transport excluded)
The Aggression of Windows
2017Windows with their / reflective propensity / often call for / a strong defensive response. // Great luck / most of times / plenty of stones abound.
Cracks
2016"The door is closed / the walls still stand / but one more sudden quake / can make cracks change into crumble." (Old farm Het Leeuwenhuis, Cabauw, the Netherlands)
Some days heaven is closer than on others.
2016
Short axis
2014When the poet writes / short axis / it implies the viewer / starts searching for the long axis / that carries your eyes.
Boom - Boom
2015Boom - Boom Headed by leather / these make drums / deep as organ pipes.
Time for art
2015Time for art Now it is time for art / you'll agree / after thirty-five years.
Aftermath
2015Aftermath: There is one road / we hardly know / as you can guess / that's the road we go. // More insight / do we have / about other people's paths. // Somewhere / between our view / and understanding / lies the aftermath.
Where houses were
2015Where houses were: where houses were / and perceptions / kept indoors / now the wind is blowing.
Current
2014Current: The person who made this / was close to happiness.// His creation is part of the garden / where Juan and Pilar Miro lived and worked. // At that time / the current was streaming.
(Fundacao Pilar i Juan Miro, Palma de Mallorca) Very limited supply of glycee-print.
The neighbours didn't know
2015The neighbours dodn't know: According to the City Courier / the neighbours / when asked / had not noticed / anything / in the past three months. // The police only responded / that the inquiry continues
Underground
2015The underground movement / I checked today / no longer moves underground. // But that's what you / should have known long time / looking at the people above.
The cities vegetable brains
2014The cities vegetable brains: An oasis planted / in the city / invites the brain / not to be carnish / but vegetable.
(Barcelona, l'Eixample)
Life in tiles
2014Life can be catched / on tiles / detached or imagined. Barcelona, quarter l'Eixample) Can be acquired as glycee, limited edition.
coagulated fluidity
2014
Three leaves survived
2014Three leaves survived the fire / and these now make history / into contemporary art / unless the news was / about contemporary art / than that now is history.
One burned pole standing
2014While the Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki / was on the other side / of the road / we spent more time here. (may be obtained as glycee or other print)
tired but satisfied
2014Looking back at the past thirty years / I think there is reason to say / something has been accomplished. // Where earlier stood function and statue / now these are down and disabled. // Yes, I'm tired but satisfied, / with the chances fully taken. (Parthenos - Neos Mammaras, Chaldikidi, Greece)
Wound in the wall
2014.
Just another
2014This could have been / the watchtower inhabited / by beat-generation writer Jack Kerouac, / at Desolation Peak (book: Dharma Bums). But it ain't. // This is just another watchtower. (Sauerland, near Meschede)
what lies beyond?
2014On a quiet spot / stands a figure / who at near-sight / isn't certain of itself / or the world beyond.
Three in the corner
2014
fluid
2014
testing (keys)
2014The disaster of testing / and the touching of keys / are one and the same. // The touch and the one struck / are subject / to the person behind the keyboard / who may have an off-day.
Civil war in wood
2014This setting - unchanged by hands of artist - signifies the war amongst equal civilians: when wood starts to hate wood / because of it's mere amount / what else can humans - superior in thought - do than / to put their foot in their mouths.
(Saul Bellow, one writer whose written word may be painted on my coffin.)
Bricks (colorful)
2014Bricks (colorful): Take bricks, for instance / and put them on top / of one another. // This will separate / two parts. // The one you're in / and the one you're not in. // Didn't realize before / that death was just another wall
(Leerfabriek Oisterwijk NL, May 18, 2014)
Columbine's egg-shell
2014
Creeping in water
2014Even rods of rebar / become fluid / after demolition of the building. // Freedom is achieved / when expectations are demolished. (Photo-session in the former Leather Factory in Oisterwijk, NL, upon initiative of Harry The Travel-Marmot
Mephisto's brain
2014So few assessments / have been made / of the devil's brain. // Now here is an answer. // It consists of five steps on a chair / in a heap of rubble / tiles in the background / and a bit of yellow. // If you grasp this / you're in Mephisto's brain.
(Former Royal Leather Factory, Oisterwijk, NL. May 18th 2014, with Harry and Comrades.)
Transparency shattered
2014Forms of transparency / are aimed / to keep outside out. // These are fairly often / a target for vandals. // Not because they intend / to get in / but in the belief / that stones fit to transparency (Former Royal Leather Factory Oisterwijk, NL)
Empty prison
2014An empty prison / comes in place / where glue fills the hole / of a stone's cast. // No, people, / that is not for understanding / that is for not understanding / where we stand / when there is no ground / under our feet. (Window at Leather Factory Oisterwijk, NL}
warhead
2014
lifetime task
2014Thought today: if from now on / I spend seven days a week / 10 hours a day / driving from one to the other / photographing bunkers in Europe / then it will take longer than forty years. Surroundings of Groenekan, NL
synergy-1
2014Synergy: nature / always provides solutions. // Here concrete was sown / and once moss established itself / and made the surface slippery / iron bows started to grow / after tens of years / for the sake of climbers.
blue ribbon
2014Six trees dance in front of two lamps and sixteen windowpanes in line with blue ribbons.
(Industrial area bordering Amsterdam-Rijn-kanaal above Utrecht)
Tools assembled
2013 Whether to display / this assembly of tools / in mathematical order / or in disorder / was the choice of the artist.
Artist: Jack Koster (NL) runs a bicycle repair gallery
Photograph by Drager Meurtant
assemblage of life and death - 1
2013 Assemblage of life and death (1): The whole life is an assemblage / alone and with one another./
After death / those left behind / add a collection / of memos / to grave or urn.
transparant
2013Who sits behind glass / has unnoticed / broken light. / After use and now discarded / lie the windows / in tenuous connection. / When the casted shape / has been broken / glass has less consistency / than a hunter with his prey / or the boss / with his subordinate.
Nail-2
2013And also a second nail / knows the tooth of time
two steps on the wall
2013These are two steps / solid / to get down. / Don't know / how much distance / to the ground / nor whether / there are more of these steps. / Kind of a stand-still / as long as my knees / do not start to tremble.
rushmoors-1
2013Rushmoors / assemble in autumn / with many / to elect their parliament. / The beauty is / that there are as many seats / as rushmoors.
Rushmoors-2
2013After the election / the rushmoors / take their seats / in groups or rows / and thereafter / it is silent / since it is not their practice / to differ in opinion.
Tangle
2013When the sun / gets excited / because of me / and lets her blood / rise to the surface / - it happens most / at the end of day - / then / my foolish breaks turn loose / and I call her / shrill at tone / to earthly order. / / Than the clouds flee / in a tangle / and leave me / without cover.
bao strictcontor
2013In particular / at the end of day / the bao strictcontor, subspecies Grohe / is at its deadliest. / The bite can come / from the crane-shaped head / and also the circular mails / of the many tails / contain a stealthy poison / that at long stand-still / causes death of veterans.
Return to earth
2013I also / have used in 1998 / external potency oracles. / After a long period of shame / I emerge / and must confess / I have not improved / but neither did you