Describe the softness of the pink cushion. With a fountain pen. On the roughest handmade paper. If you succeed, you may allow yourself to be a writer.
That pink cushion, then. I didn’t succeed. I no longer remember how often, how long, or how intently I tried. Presumably, I gave up quite soon. And with that attempt, also the idea of being a writer. Life happened, and I became a photographer.
Still, the story of that pink cushion kept following me. Years later, I told a friend about it. She drew an instant conclusion: what you did was more of a performance than a serious writing exercise.
I knew she was right, and that one day I would have to do something with it.
Work in progress
The limits of a possibility are indefinable, until a possibility is over.
To escape, Rabbit and I create new, seemingly pleasant, circumstances. They are thin and it is damn hard to cling to them, but they are there.
The thin conditions offer sight of the fact that we need to go even further. We shall prove we can.
In these photographs, I look for the depth, composition and layering I find in the painters Rabbit and I admire.
In this project (2022), I try to grab the imagination by the throat. Faced with a time in which we waverlingly plod on, I feel the need to get a glimpse of a future we can cling to. I grab a lot and frequently miss.
then what makes me needed
how thin are the layers behind which
the unseen imagines itself
give me
an imprint of this life
my future fossil
i am precisely
at the edge
for all this to be too good to be true
Installation views in Pictura Groningen (2022) en Rotterdam Photo (2023)
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That endless hope
Of all that lies ahead
And let’s hope it never ends
You hope it never ends
I hope it never ends
Forever Chords came into being during the corona pandemic. To keep going, I agreed with visual artist Peter Boersma to show each other something new every Friday. It could be an idea, a concept, a try-out or a completely new work. Gradually a whole new series emerged, which had much in common with Peter's collages. We showed the work in a successful duo exhibition at Galerie Noord in Groningen (May 2020).