Digital drawing, 2021

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              enlightenment panel

number 2

2020-21

The relief was conceived with reference to the totem, which in primitive cultures demarcated one tribe from another. Freud offered an anthropological interpretation of the totem's function as a prohibitive symbol of incest; that is to prevent intermarriage in the same tribe. He further explained the modern phenomenon of neurosis that occurs amongst people perceiving themselves to belong to the same clan. I view the primitive totem to serve a double therapeutic function: by delimiting the area of a clan, it reminds of the primitive prohibitive function that has no longer the purpose it had in primitive tribes; on the other hand, it encourages social interaction with a wider societal context.

The physical process of making the works allowed me to express a painterly vision of landscape as an expanded assemblage, where the figure is an active element in making the artworks. This also remined me of painters working with performance techniques. For example, as Kristine Stiles (1996: 17) notes, Carolee Schneemann was inspired by Cezanne, in the work of whom she saw "a craving of the human senses for 'sources of maximum information'":

        "Her early drawings, paintings and constructions transparently reveal how she took her cue from Cezanne, especially his "Bathers" paintings. But in her use of materials that cover the body, especially the shreded and collaged newspapers she used in so many Happenings and performances, Schneemann vastly expanded on Cezanne's technique of passage by translating and transforming its static patches of interlocking pigments into the moving elements that she became and described in Schlaget Auf".

Schneeman's aim was to "draw the eye back to the body that sees: both to the body's inextricable connection to what is seen and to its role in determining the nature of the seen" (Stiles, 2002: 11). This allowed her to exploit the act of drawing on paper to invent a different method "for translating feelings, intuitions and sensations into communicable information where instrumental reason, the scientific method, and logic-based epistemology have failed" (Stiles, 2002: 11).

I made a relief pattern by removing layers of the chipboard, then I combined found objects, later treated. Adapting the artistic practice of the combined in painting, I addresed the modern and ongoing question of depicting an object in the visual arts. I applied the colours from those available in a symbolic manner, abstracting the view of a ghetto in a large city. The objects stand for the landmarks.

"To repeat, what art has in common with logic and mathematics is that it is a tautology; i.e., the "art idea" (or "work") and art are the same

and can be appreciated as art without going outside the context of art for verification.

On the other hand, let us consider why art cannot be (or has difficulty when it attempts to be) a synthetic proposition."

"Works of art are analytic propositions."

From Joseph Kosuth's Art After Philosophy

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Private marina with membership, for members to repair and restore boats, including industrial and communal facilities. 

Own private boats (1, 2), 2018 - 2020

The thriving Dutch boating culture depends on the country's highly engineered water infrastructure, but also on the economy of buying, repairing and selling boats that are treated as tax-free commodity objects. License is not necessary to sail your boat in the Netherlands. Basic construction understanding is useful for the hands-on sailing and repairing boats. The Dutch marinas are vibrant spaces for keen amateur sailors, craftsmen and tradesmen alike.