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Breathing

In 2020 I made a series of masks in which I investigate my personal emotions, reactions and thoughts about the Civis-19 pandemic. Since most of them are made during lock-down I have mainly used materials I had lying around my studio and home.

Tagged With: masks, photographs, portrait, textiles

Underworld, 2020

‘Underworld’ is a series of risoprints made with photographs I took of trees/landscapes mirrored in water. They show an inverted, inaccessable world full of mysterie. The same but also the opposite of the world we live in and call reality. There are 111 prints on paper, all a bit smaller than A4, all different in image, amount of layers or colours, some of them have been sewn over or have a sewn-on layer of sheer fabric.

Tagged With: landscape, riso-prints, trees, watermirror image

M & M’s

An A6 booklet of risoprints and riso-drawings. There are 10 booklets with 80 M & M’s, 5 with 64 and 2 with 40 M & M’s. Each booklet has different variations of the 80 different images; all risoprinted and many of them drawn on. There are also loose A6 M & M riso-drawings.

Tagged With: book, portrait, riso-drawings, riso-prints

Facemasks, 2019

‘Facemasks’: a series of collage drawings in crayon on A3 paper.

The riso printed booklet ‘Where did I go?’ goes with this series.

‘Where did I go?’

Tagged With: drawings, riso-drawings, riso-prints

scraps sketches

Scraps sketches are small (A3 or smaller) sketches in fabrics for my ‘scapes to try out different techniques and materials.

    Who shall I be, what shall I make me?

    Aipas

    A series of A3 pencil drawings. In these drawings I am identifying with a doll I found at a flea market: a typical representation of a white, Western girl. She is a bit battered, awkward looking wearing a conservative stiff dotted dress. She is all I never wanted to be… I give her masks from all over the world and all cultures so she can pick and choose who she wants to be. She keeps the dress though: not able to loose or change her dna, cultural upbringing and past experiences.

    Tagged With: drawings, self-portrait

    Animal Dolls

    Animal Dolls is a series of A3 riso-drawings / -prints of combinations of antique dolls and stuffed animals sbowing the animal nature of innocence.

    Tagged With: drawings, riso-drawings, riso-prints

    (Den Haag) de Creatieve Stad

    De creatieve stad (= the creative city) was a poster project set up by the Grafische Werkplaats in cooperation with Haags Gemeentearchief. 30 Den Haag based artists designed and analog printed an A2 poster. These were exhibited at the Werkplaats. Digital A1 prints of these posters were exhibited at the Tramtunnel Gallery. I silkscreen-printed a 3-colour image (upon which I drew and stuck dot-stickers, making each print a one-off) of a towerblock as seen through the ‘stocking’ of the covering of the metro-line.

    Tagged With: cityscape, silkscreen

    Cityscape Tapestries (TexLab)

    In 2017 I have worked at TextielLab in Tilburg. There I have translated a Cityscape drawing into a wall tapestry: Cityscape Tapestry (TexLab) 1. In it I combined several techniques: the base is woven and on top of this I ‘pinned’ with embroidered circles a laser-cut layer. I also made 3 Cityscape plaid & pillow sets.

    In 2019 I returned to work at TextielLab to make 4 more Cityscape wall hangings. Again I combined several techniques in them: weaving, laser-cutting, knitting, cable making.

    Thanks to Textiellab & St. Stokroos for making this project possible.

    • Cityscape Tapestry TexLab 1, 2017, 140 x 1212 cm.
    • Cityscape plaid & pillow set 1, 2017, cotton quilted

    • Cityscape plaid & pillow set 3, 2017, wool

    • Cityscape plaid & pillow set 2, 2017, wool
    • Cityscape Tapestry (TexLab) 3b, 2019, 160 x 245 cm.
    • Cityscape Tapestry (TexlLab) 2, 2019, 140 x 210 cm.
    • Cityscape Tapestry (TexLab) 2b, 2019, 140 x 210 cm.
    • Cityscape Tapestry (TexLab), 2019, 140 x 210 cm.

    Tagged With: cityscape, textiles

    Dolls & Masks, 2018

     

    Dolls & Masks, 2018

    A series of riso-prints who each have been invidiualised with drawing. Dolls are combined with masks and sometimes costumes of cultures from all over the world.

    Tagged With: drawings, riso-drawings, riso-prints

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