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 2025
(click on an image to enlarge an artwork)
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Did you see it?!
2025"look nearby"
The old Chevvy
2023seen at market in Katwijk
Surface
2021"the surface reflects age, or / rather, the filter that sieves / time, or / rather, the filter of the eyes / that examine the surface" https://dragermeurtant.wordpress.com/2021/04/10/amazement-as-a-source-for-art/
Ce matin (l'automne)
2020This morning (in autumn): nature or solar panel park? future will tell
I.C.C.
2020
Insulation / isolation / connection
"Perhaps next week"
2020"If no call is answered / the mailbox not emptied / the grass not cut // and, if in cold weather / there is no smoke rising from the chimney" (edition max 5)
Precautions
2019"Well, I think / under some conditions / and with proper precautions / one might..." (Walking The Bronx)
Hardly any light
2019"The light hardly reached / the right side of the barn. // There it was dark / except for a hole / used by the cat to enter / or leave the space."
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."
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.
green light (in passing)
2017London street view (April 12th, 2017)
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.
Time for art
2015Time for art Now it is time for art / you'll agree / after thirty-five years.
Outlook - 4
2016Everyday / I learn something new. (Abandoned building, Extremadura)
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
2014
Current: 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
2015"The underground movement / I checked today / no longer moves underground. // But that's what I / should have recognized for a long time / by the sight of the people above."
The cities vegetable brains
2014
The 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.
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)
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.
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
2014
So 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.)
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 nót understanding / where we stand / when there is no ground under our feet. (Window at Leather Factory Oisterwijk, NL}
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
2014
Six 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 let me excite her / and her blood rises to the surface / - it happens most / at the end of day - / then my foolish brakes turn loose / and I call her shrill at tone / to earthly order. / / Next 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