2024 MARCH 



WHAT CAN WE SAY?

The free democratic west has shown us that absolutely nothing is sacred. 
AI news.
Death of history as we know it 
Death of future


Painting
Large + smaller studies
big theme of western deception of progress
the rousseau of this art shit

GLORIOUS DEMISE


A fantasy future combining the best and the worst in a magical realist mystery, is it the past or the future? A future retelling of the now.

Bible themed compositions
everything colored differently including people
coded grid based
Pseudo Scientific
Coded decoration - computer

Themes:


Burning city
Glass facades reflecting fire and destruction
Broken glass facade, with fire inside
Animated mirror facades
Add fire to existing footage
Whole skyline attacked by lines, exploding in pixels (computer game ref., playing with destruction.)
Google streetview burning apocalyptic scenes inserted
Cities after the fire, overgrown, farming

Also reflect burning palm trees
fighter planes and bombers, parachutes

Death of internet

PIle of broken screens
piles of computers, phones etc
Browsers showing static

Analog machines, offline machinery
the last update
Cut the cables



YOU NEED TO CUT IT

Long march
People on the move
compiled from all videos and films
overlayed grid perspective
painting too, deep dark background with luminous chalk thick lines for grid.
people painted with thick paint.

Rewriting the past and Writing the future
historical footage and imagery
abstract surroundings connecting everything in 3d grid form
The Grid signifying a spatial time.. the same setting moving in time. Reoccurring patterns of human behaviour and power. Use the spatial element of perspective to connect instances in history.
End of an empire.




Red pink faces, angry rage. Red white and blue coloring for clothing. 
Contrasting with.... the stale grid background, the system of planetary murder

Rewriting done by AI. 

Power makes you dumb.

Dead Sea
Ships on the bottom of the ocean
ship halfway to the bottom

Heroes and Prophets
The people in power
power of what 
Weilding what


The death of the book

Ocean of cars
Robots in Suits
Weapons of mass corruption

Gods of destruction
World of distraction




Met some of those high end gallerists today. I felt that old eagerness that helps noone. Glad I didn’t act on it. But what is that? I feel eagerness and disdain. Disdain is something I should watch out for. You cannot know nothing about a person and feel disdain.

I like the word though. As a title for a work. Disdain for the man in a suit, the man who feels disdain. Or I think he does. What is the color of disdain? What shape? Maybe it is orange, because orange.

Can we talk about musical ambitions? What is that? Does it satisy some kind of mathematic desire to understand and play with time?
Place things in time, a linear composition.

Atmosphere is what I can create with music. It doesn’t have to be beats. Or danceable.



long march







DELIBERATE


late Middle English (as an adjective): from Latin deliberatus, ‘considered carefully’, past participle of deliberare, from de- ‘down’ + librare ‘weigh’ (from libra ‘scales’).
 

DELIBERATE ABOUT LIBERATION
pData Center:

Just the cube.
Infographics

timeline scrolling at the bottom as a ring.
alternating facts

spinning globe on the block

Fictional place

wealth gap
military expenditure
climate deaths
animal extinction
bitcoin
child mortality
literacy
connected to the internet
amount of cars
flights
earth temperature
beyonce no 1 hits
%AI content
phone time
books read
alcohol
suicides
fertility
religions
microplastics
fishing
whaling
world population
biodiversity

names of all the deaths
font size to equalize amount of space taken

industrial revolution


it needs humor, rediculousness
overload
scrolling phones, computer games

Or just symmetrical ego compositions
More fun to make, more effective less smart
less newsworthy



                                                    








2024 JAN WORK PLAN

SERIES:


1. PHOTOGRAPHY (CAR DENTS & MORE)
- Find platform for sales, but first try through instagram
- Different formats and framing: Just print, - with frame, - with lightbox. Plan for changing prints yearly.
- https://www.led24.nl/led-paneel-60x60-back-lit-randloos-6000k-koud-wit.html
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- Lightframe Gilbert and George style window compositions: Mirror reflections, transcendental views, imaginary, photoshop

2. KITES
- Flatten them and frame in plexiglass, front and ring in back. ( smaller rings inside)
- plexi screws from back *(vraag bij stout)
- UV protection Plexi ga bij Stout vragen
- frame 500 piece 2000-3000

3. CHIP FACTORY
- series decide different sizes
- silkscreen risoprint
- woodpiece
- plexi

UNPOPULAR  OPINIONS
(convince me otherwise)

MODERN ART=DEAD

Economic growth = Death









4. PORTRAITS
- magical realist album cover style with colored frame. Start with digital collage sketches. Paint friends, potential buyers standard size like record covers. 


5. LANDSCAPES


6. CITYSCAPES

7. APOCALYPSE


WHO’S FLYING THIS THING?




8. LED SCREEN PRINTS

9. FASHION
Hand painted shirts STRIPES

 LINK

10. ONE OFFS AND LEFTOVERS





 WORD PAINTINGS
I love you

11. GRIDS

Painted on lightbox fabric


12. FAVELA SERIES



PROJECTED INCOME:

Favela Series
20 paintings € 1200/painting

€ 24000 - €10000 -> Brazil                 -€ 14000

Kites
€ 26900
DONATION: €10000     

PROFIT:                                                   -€ 16900         

Interview with myself

What is an Artist?

An artist is independent. The artist follows and answers to no-one. No boss or client to please, or worry about displeasing.

YOUR JOB IS TO RECOGNIZE BEAUTY AND THE LACK OF IT. UGLINESS. 

Sounds great but what do you do all day?

An artist observes.  Eyes and ears open at all time. To recognize beauty but  also pain. Understanding why beauty is lacking. The artist makes things to process these observations and to form an understanding which can be shared with the world. The artist tries to come closer to an ideal. This can be completely abstract but the artist keeps trying

an inner obligation to process beauty, but also to recognize the lack of it. Ugliness. You cannot make beauty without recognizing ugliness.  If an artist is overcome by inspiration  there is no sleep until 

That’s it? You just look and make stuff?

No. It comes with a responsibility. The artist has the duty to be honest and to him/herself.
That is the price. Independence comes with the obligation of honesty because, as an artist you only answer to yourself.

When is an artist dishonest?

If an artist observes an ugliness it is the artists responsibility to call it out without fear for repercussion. If you are silent, because you are worried about what your buyers or clients  think, you are dishonest and dependent. Such a person is no artist, afraid to offend whoever has the money.  Most artists are marketeers. Either they don’t see the ugliness or they are afraid.










But for whom?

For anyone who pays attention. 







What do you do all day?


                                                    








2024 CHIP FACTORY


SIZES SERIES:
1.  GOUACHE ON PAPER
2. 12X12 WOOD PIECE OBJECT
3. 25X25 WOOD PIECE OBJECT

BRAIN MIRRORS



AN ABSTRACT PAINTING LIVES IN YOUR HEAD, REFLECTS YOUR BRAIN AS YOU ASSOCIATE AND WONDER

RORSCHACH


CIRCUIT


This fascination with circuitry has different origins for me. To start with the technological advances I experienced in my youth. The promises they held for an exciting and fascinating future where beautifully designed machines would elavate us to new altitudes of wonder.  All this made possibkle by electronic and computer chips.

Later, after my dad took me to a lecture by the slightly controvercial Ruper Sheldrake, I became fascinated by a prevailing feeling of connectedness. I imagined invisible networks connecting people, ideas, buildings. Everything really. This was possibly sparked by Sheldrake’s theory of morphic fields.  I made a book where the pages where divided into 3, making for endless combinations of layouts. Containing images of anything that reminded me of networking or interlinkedness. 






Word vomit:

Symmetry, system, function, program, weaving, beading, conductor, brain, network, part-of, element, cell, nucleus, grid, cpu, processor, computer, nano architecture, micro, small, monolithic integrated circuit, semiconductor, silicon, transistor, integrated circuit, similitude, maze, plug in, architecture, MAZE, Ram and flash, Moore’s Law, MEMORY, brain, MASTER CONTROLLER, storage

Association:

City grids, cell nucleus, beading and weaving, decorative arts, gustav klimt. miniature of cities, TAXIDERMY, Archaeology of organisation typology, evolution of, Like paintings in frames  , 
Throne and temple decoration.
icons and auras, genotype, dna



Symbol:

Brains of the operation. What makes it work. Unit of functionality. Contains program. 20th century invention that chanaged everything.

Making:

Recreating the idea of the computer chip as a unit of art. Decorative without active function. Can the function be redefined or associated? Hinted at? Or just decorative exploration of the nano architecture of our new world? What is the process of my design? A way of regurgetating the digital intake? Showing whats behind? Following existing designs or taking elements. Cutting and sampling.

Makes sense to make with the wood pieces but maybe hand painting is better?

Interexchange chip designs with traditional

In 1970, French molecular biologist Jacques Monod proposed what he called the “abstract kingdom” — a conceptual place analogous to the biosphere, populated by ideas that propagate much like organisms do in the natural world. Monod wrote:
Ideas have retained some of the properties of organisms. Like them, they tend to perpetuate their structure and to breed; they too can fuse, recombine, segregate their content.














MOTHER
BOARD


MORE IS MORE



WHY SO MANY?







Rollo May:
Technology can be clung to, believed in, and depended on far beyond its legitimate sphere, since it also serves as a defense against our fears of irrational phenomena. Thus the very success of technological creativity […] is a threat to its own existence.

CAGE:
We really do need structure, so we can see we are nowhere.

architecture for memory


NEURONS



Santiago Ramon y Cajal drawings



COMPUTATION in the brain

Really so much inspiration looking at the images. I almost dont want to make anythin

MINIMAL



GOLDEN 





THREADING AND WEAVING



OBJECT & 3D




REFERENCES








The Chicago stone resembles circuitry diagrams








PIANO






QUILT


If I could reveal anything that is hidden from us, at least in modern cultures, it would be to reveal something that we’ve forgotten, that we used to know as well as we knew our own names. And that is that we live in a competent universe, that we are part of a brilliant planet. And that we are surrounded by genius. Biomimicry is a new discipline that tries to learn from those geniuses, and take advice from them, design advice. ” ~ Janine Benyus


2024 KITES



FRAME:


1. SMALL KITE


1 X 60CM PLEXI FRAME            - €300
SALE                                               - €2000

PROFIT                                           - €1700


2. 6 KITES +/- 100cm


6 x100cm plexi frames (400)        - € 2400
6 x 3200 SALE                                - €19200

PROFIT                                             - €16800

3. BIG KITE
Too big so chop it up into rectangles or squares. OR. KEEP AND GIVE AWAY 




4 RECTANGULAR COMPOSITIONS
PLEXI BOXES

4 X 60X75 PLEXI BOXES       - €1200
4 X 2400 SALE                        - €9600

PROFIT                                      - €8400





TOTAL PROFIT                                -€ 26900