WORK PLAN

INSIDE-OUTSIDE
GLORIOUS DEMISE

THE CONFRONTATION WITH INEVITABLE DEMISE. GLORIOUS IN IT’S TOTAL PREDICTABILITY. 



PAST - FUTURE - COLLIDE
INSIDE - OUTSIDE
SUBJECT - CONTEXT
IN THE ROOM (TOGETHER)

GRID - WINDOW - PERSPECTIVE
DIGITAL GRID TOO
STUDIO SPACE - HEAD SPACE

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE OBJECT AND THE VIEWER

USE PERSPECTIVE EXPLICITLY AS CONTEXTUAL INDICATOR

Backgrounds: landscapes, skies, cityscapes
foregrounds - anything in a room

compositions
colors
patterns textures

sketches on paper lino overlay or riso
a4

sketches on canvas ah bags stapled to wood
sketches on canvas - 50x35

Large paintings - classic compositions






MORTALS
INNER ENERGY COLOR


video montage pvm

LED OBJECTS

Altar/shrine


POLYCRISIS
finite resourses - infinite growth
embracing hypocrisy
power plant,
atomic bomb,
chess
error 

NEWS

YES/BUT

POLARISER

LEFTIST/RIGHTIST
PROTEST
PROXIMITY SENSORS
VEIL
unified field
KEYBOARD WARRIOR
SURVEIL
WARNING
CLASSIFIED
INBED














PEOPLE HAVE BECOME A CROP FOR DATA HARVESTING. WHICH RAISES THE QUESTION OF FREE WILL IN A DIGITIZED WORLD. THERE IS A NOSTALGIA IN THE WORK, APPARENT THROUGH THE REFERENCES TO 80’S TECHNOLOGY AND VISUAL LANGUAGE. THE PROMISE OF TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT. ORACLED THROUGH SCREENS. THE SCREENS BECAME AS UBIQUTOUS AS JEZUS STATUES IN CATHOLIC HOMES.

WE WORSHIP OUR DIGITAL WORLD MORE THAN MONEY. RECEIVING AND BROADCASTING IN BETWEEN COMMERCIALS. NO NEED TO CREATE TELEVISION BECAUSE WE DO IT FOR FREE.

WHAT WAS FUTURISTIC IN THE 80’S IS RETROFITTED OPTIMISM.

QUESTIONS OF INEQUALITY AND COMMODIFICATION OF THE LIVING WORLD. HOMO DIGITALIS ECONOMICUS IMAGINIS.  TECHNOCRATIC CAPITALIST UNIVERSE IS SHOWING CRACKS WHILE ALTERNATIVES ARE UNIMAGINABLE.

ARTIFICIAL WALLS TO PROTECT US FROM THE POVERTY AND SUFFERING WE CREATE TO UPHOLD THE WESTERN CAPITALIST HEGEMONY.

PAINTING

IT CAN BE ANY SUBJECT AS LONG AS I WANT TO PAINT IT. THE CONSISTENCY SHALL BE IN THE STYLE OF PAINTING, MINIMAL DETAIL AND STRONG EXPRESSIVE STROKE. THER SHOULD BE A CONSISTENCY IN ASSOCIATION AS WELL. IT CAN BE THE GRID OR PERSPECTIVE CONSTRUCTION LINES. IT CAN ALSO BE THE FRAME LIKE THE BORDER OF A MAP WITH A SCALE.


LOOK AT PAINTINGS AND COLLECT ELEMENTS.

subsistance - prevent people from being able to live











AUTO BROADCAST

prisoners of desire
memetic desire
attention deficit
red scare
distant violence
cheap labor
love is a sound






TTD



update website
stupidtelligent texts for existing posts
- Holocene - human humans
- Kunstkerk dordrecht
- Salk project

German residency installation plan

AGA lab residency plan

DAE Bachelor proposal

OFFERTES PLEXI BOX VOOR LED


PEOPLE MOVING

jan 6 insurrection
oct 7 attack of resistance
march of refugees gaza
people in cobalt mines
BML
amazon protests
israeli soldiers


actual events in grid framework
the grid reveals PERSPECTIVE which can be a support for superimposed image

pattern or reference to known painting - connotation


The grid reflects or embodies capitalism, the corporation, the office, the desk, the computer
the prespective, underneath is abstraction
matrix
maps, zones of influence
intersect with other graphic explanations and medical models
play with macro micro


The harsh contrasts when you put instance in a room together

israeli family - palestinian prisoner
american banker - forest fire or whats left of it
oil tanker in raimnforest






CANT BE ASKED
Death of history

GLORIOUS DEMISE


A fantasy of destruction
Bible
Coded decoration - computer

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


APRIL


The New Line
Signature style
Against all odds

A newly devized signature style combined from my past wanderings.
A politically infused painterly style combining the swift brad touch with graphic elements, grids information etc.
The style can reflect in or originate from video and the LED screens.

Design a process, a practice
A daily Routine.

A place to dump images. Ordered by composition or dimensions. Create slideshow. Subject myself to the random selection. Take it from the computer. Standalone. Present on PVM screens.

Make slideshow file where prescaled images are dumped. Play and record on vhs or dv. 720x576. Use videomixer to overlay slideshows. 

(Moving back to old technology because the new shit makes me vibrate uncomfortably and I feel like I’m working for the machines and not the other way around. The changes are in my hands, turning knowbs and pressing buttons, not transferred from my mind directly into a computer. Like I am doing now. It is also a tactile way to stay connected to the past, my youth, containing a bright future which now seems lost. Is it a way to take back moves on the chess board and start over at an earlier point when the outlook was hopeful?)


Jump to painting and sketching
I need guidelines, the windows and grids could be a start. Charcoal or ink on paper. Large format. Layers for silkscreen or other forms of printing. Riso. This can be combined with the photo archive. 

-Buy large format paper a
and materials after checking what I have. The first series on large paper could be accompanied by a smaller sketch format.

Inspiration won’t come from weed alone, I need to surround myself with images. A slideprojector could be a way to keep it analog but slides are expensive. I could use this for best selections for each period. 
One beamer for sildeshow and monitors.
Slideshow can be brightsign dump or pendrive somehow.


Landscapes like Valloton
Spaces like Bacon
Gestures like Soulages
People like Gaugin? 
Maybe be obvious about this as a form of memory. Sample through remaking.

How can I use this all over the placeness to my advantage? This constant distraction, I welcome it but don’t give in to it. Or actually I do but I am not satisfied. I need a job description, an assignment, an agenda. This process will create the story I want to tell. The assignment could be sellable work because it is in series.

The assignment could be per series.

Make large grid stamps with wood and fabric. 

Format for digital with music:
Instagram video. PVM on its side
Youtube PVM

Combine music with live mixed video.
Content creation. 

Setup studio.
Place for large drawing - wall

Place for video edit
Place for Painting


















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 marked a change. No more merely remarking that things are wrong and twisted, but actively engaging with the idea of changing, choosing other options. Rooting for other systems. Things are not inevitable. Things are not normal. It is orchestrated.


YES BUT ---> NO 



                                                    








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