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The works are made to order and delivery times may vary. Each edition includes custom wrapping, and is signed on the reverse. Please send an email to place an enquiry.
Digital work in limited editions can be found here or here. Other work on this website may only be available on request.
Commemorative plaques
The engraved signs offered here are linked to The Plot, a family-owned forest that has been devastated by an outbreak of the European spruce bark beetle. The infestation continues across the continent, ravaging spruce stands from the North Sea to the Black Sea. On The Plot I installed plaques on three decaying tree trunks to commemorate the beetle’s passage. The acrylic plaques are engraved with texts set in Ips typography, a typeface based on the tracks left by the beetles (Ips typographus in Latin) in the bark of spruce trees. The font was created in collaboration with Dutch typographer Jeroen ‘Joebob’ Van der Ham.
Afterimage
The series consists of 1:1 reproductions of my tablet screen, printed on Dibond (an aluminium composite material). Size: 24.5 x 17.5 cm (9.6″ x 6.7″). Read more about Afterimage below.
Artistic Refurbishments: an experiment
What if outdated iPhones were given extended lives as neatly contained storage and displays for art? Scroll down for more.
Regenerate
Engraved acrylic, 180 x 240 x 1.6 mm, 2025
Brown plaque with white text, set in Ips typography. The text reads ‘Regenerate’, a phrase that returns in the information panel project ⓘ by way of a spell. It has also been made into a mural. Weather-proof.
€ 380 ex. postal costs.
The Compositor/Composing
Engraved acrylic, 200 x 295 x 1.6 mm, 2020. Weather-proof.
Black oval plaque with white Ips typographus tracks, traced from a piece of bark from The Plot. This particular pattern was used for a process of image sonification, resulting in an audio work. In Dutch, the European spruce bark beetle is called Letterzetter, which translates into English as ‘compositor’. This is The Compositor/Composing.
€ 380 ex. postal costs.
The Plot (I)
Engraved acrylic, 140 x 70 x 1.6 mm, 2020
White oval with black spruce bark beetle traces. This is a copy of a commemorative plaque installed on The Plot, and that was shown in Collectie De.Groen in 2022 (see photos).
Weather-proof. Easy to mount on tree trunks.
€ 180 ex. postal costs.
The Plot (II)
Engraved acrylic, 160 x 100 x 1.6 mm, 2020
Green arrow shape with white spruce bark beetle traces. This is a copy of a commemorative plaque installed on The Plot, and that was shown in Collectie De.Groen in 2022 (see photos).
Weather-proof. Easy to mount on tree trunks.
€ 180 ex. postal costs.
We are doomed
Engraved acrylic, 100 x 100 x 1.6 mm, 2020
Red star with white text, set in Ips typography, reading: “We are doomed”. This is a copy of a commemorative plaque installed on The Plot, and that was shown in Collectie De.Groen in 2022 (see photos). The text was also used in the information panel project ⓘ, and is prominently part of a short animation.
Weather-proof. Easy to mount on tree trunks.
€ 180 ex. postal costs.
Afterimage
Matte print on dibond (an aluminum composite), 24,5 x 17,5 cm (9.6″ x 6.7″), 2023 – ongoing.
Afterimage is a series documenting traces of my movements on my iPad’s touch screen. Some were left after working on the device, others are deliberately drawn shapes.
Afterimage are 1:1 reproductions of my tablet’s screen, identifiable by distinct cracks in the screen’s glass. It is not possible to choose an Afterimage – I will decide which one you receive. The Afterimages depicted here are examples: the series is expanding regularly.
€ 600 ex. postal costs.
Good ideas travel in packs
Afterimage is part of a lineage: good ideas travel in packs, and the work is in excellent company, with similar ideas emerging in Nicolas Lamas’ Blind gestures, Tamiko Thiel’s Touching, Traces, Noor Nuyten’s Swiped Horizon, and Stéphanie Saadé’s Digiprint. Each of these works are concerned with the ephemeral qualities of our finger traces on this (networked) device, evidencing trains of thought that are lost when the screen goes black.
Afterimage was inspired by my continuing fascination for the illusory space that seems to linger behind the screen, and the impossibility to engage with it in tangible ways. My traces might be read as an attempt to grasp that space. I highlighted the traces by using a special lamp, which makes the cracks in the screen clearly visible, authenticating the series as mine: the damage is like a fingerprint.
Artistic Refurbishments
An experimental method for offering a small selection of digital born art works for sale on outdated iPhones.
Older iPhones cannot be updated anymore, and even though they may, or may not, be recycled, it made me think of ways to put these devices to artistic use. I have collected several old phones over the years, that are used as mediaplayers. The Fundamental Mechanics series was made on a phone, so it makes perfect sense to present it on one.
The experiment is as follows: if you have an old iPhone with basic functionality and an undamaged screen lying around in a drawer, you can send it to me for artistic refurbishing. I will clear out the phone entirely, and install one or more Fundamental Mechanics on it with a little app that loops the animation infinitely, after which I will return the phone to you.
The phone is not a phone anymore, but a neat, self-contained art storage and display. If you are interested in participating in this experiment, send me an email. Price on request.