Assemblage. 19x19x6cm. It seems that it’s hard to find an assemblage from my hands without animals. Why? Don’t know. Anyway, happy with this little piece of melancholy and nostalgia.
Assemblage. 20x20x8cm. Bought the horse in the middle from a man who said it was from Japan. With several other vintage horse items. Made in my studio in Leidschendam.
# 4 In the Hannemann’s Happy Universe Story. Handmade collage. 20x30cm/8x12inch. With a part of an atlas of 1933, a bear from a book of the sixties about the circus and various other vintage illustrations.
Bettie serveert refers to famous Dutch female tennis player Bettie Stöve. It is also the name of the Dutch indie rock band Bettie Serveert (Bettie serves or service to Bettie). They named themselves after Bettie who made it to the finals in Wimbledon but was more popular as a double player.
It is the last one in a series of three I made in the Nagymezö Utca in Budapest. Actually, on the day the Hungarian football team won over Austria with 2-0 at the European Championship in France.
Tinker Bell is from a Disney book from the fifties or sixties. With other images from various other vintage books about astronomy or medicine or for children. 19x27cm/8x11inch.
Assemblage (27x17x13cm). Wooden box covered with pages of a fifties magazine and painted with a glossy varnish. With original books and various electric parts.