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
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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
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
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.
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5. LANDSCAPES
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6. CITYSCAPES
7. APOCALYPSE
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WHO’S FLYING THIS THING?
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8. LED SCREEN PRINTS
9. FASHION
Hand painted shirts STRIPES
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LINK
10. ONE OFFS AND LEFTOVERS
- 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
LINK10. ONE OFFS AND LEFTOVERS
WORD PAINTINGS
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11. GRIDS
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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?
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, storageAssociation:
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.
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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
