Small Sketchbook
It is really a small sketchbook. Just 9×9 cm. I have no idea how I got it and initially no idea what to use it for. But on the front, it says ‘Watercolor sketch album’ so I started to use it with watercolors and pen. On the back is a website and once I visited […]
Spring ’23
It is spring according to the calendar but it is cold, windy and it is raining. You might say, it is typical Dutch weather but after many months of this Dutch weather everybody is looking for a change. And there will be some. The humidity will drop from 90% to 80%. That is not enough. […]
Blackbird in my garden
The end of winter finally. I made two sketches and don’t really know which i like more. Maybe the initial simple one was the best.
Dubai
Dubai is an amazing experience. You simply don’t know where to look and after some attempts a decision has been made to take a hop-on-hop-off bus. That sounds like a lazy option for uninterested tourists but that is not the case. It is a practical solution if you just have four days to see a […]
Respect (Movie 2010)
So what to do when you are approx. 30 years old and just have been admitted to a Ninja school and your terror-Teddy doesn’t approve? The only way to find out is to watch a short movie directed by Benoit Forgeard. The movie (France 2010) is called Respect and shows that there is something in […]
Brussels
Visiting Brussels in January was interesting and cold. The most interesting part was the discussion about legal implications of art and art collections. There are more legal issues than I could have imagined. A visit to African Museum was a nice outing and a great place to reflect on colonial art and the possible ethical […]
London Metro
What to do when in the London Metro travelling from one side of the city to the other? It turns out people do a lot. People read, chat, change shoes, listen to music, do the makeup, study the billboards etc. Most of the time I stared at people. The diversity is such that boredom is […]
Frozen leaves
So, it was cold during the night of 13 December in the Netherlands. And there is some ice on the canals. So there are immediately huge expectations about ice skating. But the ice is very thin. Promising but thin and so we will have to wait for a few more nights. In the meantime there […]
Wadden Sea National Park
Wadden Sea National Park is the northern part of the Netherlands. It is partly sea with impressive tides and partly a collection of islands.https://www.waddensea-worldheritage.org For me, it is the most beautiful part of the Netherlands. I have been there many times but usually during winter and autumn. The problem is (if there is a problem […]
Venice Biennale 2022
During the ’22 Venice Biennale (the Milk of Dreams) https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2022I stayed in a wonderful hotel. Nothing really special except that on the 4th floor there was a balcony. In addition there were 3 days of sunlight in the morning at the end of November. And, oh yes, there was a terrible rainy day too but […]