On the first of January there was an article in the newspaper about a man in Norfolk-England who offered his goldfish a life saving operation of € 387,–. Many people had a laugh about it. Probably it is more normal to spend that amount of money on jeans or a diner in a fancy restaurant. As a pet lover I can understand the man.
So when a goldfish of a friend died I asked him to preserve him in the freezer. Then I did the little fellow in a glass jar containing some blue stones and 70% alcohol. His last resting place. 25x25x6cm – 10x10x2,5inch.
€ 150,–
Images of Australia, Mexico and America blended together with a background from a sixties atlas and pieces of the book Astronomie voor Iedereen and mushrooms from the book Paddenstoelen from Thijsse. Handmade collage. Passe-partout 30x40cm and 19x29cm cut out.
€ 125,–
Handmade collage. 40x50cm with 29x44cm cut out. With around 25 pieces from books like Beautiful Moths, fifties book of the city Lvov, Paddenstoelen from Thijsse, Birds of the World, Hungarian Sports Magazine 1958 and English Atlas of the sixties.
€ 195,–
Worked a long time on this collage (40x40cm). All the collages shown are handmade. For this collage I used around 50 pieces out of 8 books/magazines.
€ 245,–
In my hometown there was a big hall where they sold live stock once a week. They also used it for sports and concerts. Then a disease affecting live stock broke out. The market stopped and the last years of the Groenoordhallen there were big flea markets. That’s where I bought a few sheets of stamps from Czechoslovakia. I worked on it with stamps and blockprint. Just for fun.
€ 150,–
Assemblage. 40x20x10cm. Title is Schakenbosch. “Schaken” means chess in Dutch and “bosch” is the old Dutch spelling for wood. Schakenbosch is the name for the ground where my studio (a former mental hospital) is situated.
Made in a fifties wooden box from a carpenter studio, inlay of scrapwood from De Zaanstreek, pieces of wood and old furniture and chess pieces.
€ 195,–
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