# RETROSPECTIVE | It is time to look back and evaluate the art I passionately created since 1989. After thirty five years, there are still unfinished subjects that need to be worked out. This exercise reflects the urgency to move forward - Look Back, Think Forwards - by doing so I draw on old and necessary ideas and make room for the new. Perhaps I will bury my previous works: entrust the entire oeuvre to the ground, but first exhibit, share, sell and recycle. #10 JULY 2025 | "1, (3x2), 4, 5". My mantra has always been: Reshuffle. Reschedule. Replay. Restore. Recreate. Rethink. Remix. This work is an action whereby I re-energize old cloths. What do you see? A cat or tights? This is a work from the INVISIBLE PROJECT or "STOFKLEDEN", 1 cat made from 3 pairs of tights, with 4 legs and 5 fingers. 2000 GRONINGEN #9 JUNE 2025 | "Een Mantel ten Geschencke". The PACK-Art project, making objects for wine bottles. Gradually I moved away from Design into Contemporary Art, using paper in combination with organical and other materials, developing a self taught style of collage and assemblage, 'bric-a-brac'. Inspired by the idea to make use of waste products and give it a classical and ancient look and feel. 1994 ARNHEM #8 MAY 2025 | "Vis-à-Vis" (Stofkleden). The INVISIBLE project reveals regulating and creative primal forces through creating engaging art works using needle, thread and fabric. 2000 GRONINGEN #7 APRIL 2025 | Gloves and booklet (filosoferen over kunst aan de hand van 68 handschoenobjecten 2010-2013), from the GLOVEMAKERS project. Philosophizing about art, Art for the sake of Art, Art for the sake of Money, Art as a Cultural Heritage or as a Mirror to Society, Art for Social Change, Art as an Identity Search, Community based Art, Land Art, Outsider Art, Design, Esthetics, Religious Art, Conceptualism, Metamodernism... 2018 DEN HAAG #6 MARCH 2025 | "Web of Symbols" from the INVISIBLE project. In those days I started to look for the timeless and unchangable sources of life and learned more about patterns. The invisible site of life emerged to me. It gave my work a spiritual character. Both arts and religion unveil a non-material world. 2000 GRONINGEN #5 FEBRUARY 2025 | "Jack of Spades" from the series STOFKLEDEN (Invisible Project). Left behind, worn out or recycled garments are a recurring theme in my work. I am fascinated by the idea of ​​transformation into other shapes. Creating a new manifestation, opposed and entirely different from the previous, and yet the same (dichotomy). 2000 GRONINGEN #4 JANUARY 2025 | In the project MARVELLOUS WORKS I played with the nature of appropriation by adding "a personal touch" to second hand books, creating order and chaos, letting layers interfere with each other, focussing on mixtures, mismatches and serendipity. The title "Marvellous Works" is taken from Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis" written in 1626. The book in which "the college of the Six Days' Works" is working on a scientific model to understand the world and its creation. For me the years 2006-2009 were crucial for seeing the nature of contemporary art. 2008 DEN HAAG #3 DECEMBER 2024 | Objects from the PLASTIC FOR EVER project. Fake is real. To work with the theme of authenticity, I created a Real Plastic World. 1995 WINDHOEK #2 NOVEMBER 2024 | "Titia's Dresses" (right) and "Seedbed" (left) from the INVISIBLE project. I found cloths (bodies) which I adapted to pieces of art (souls). While I was working in this female area of the magical art of thread, creating everything by hand with needle and thread. 2000 GRONINGEN #1 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2024 | Window display at my new studio Van Galenstraat The Hague. Looking back to go forward. "Die Welt" (a wall hanging, connecting white gloves with golden chains) and "Venus of Willendorf" (in the right corner) from the GLOVE MAKERS project: an artistic research, a quest for the unprecedented possibilities of contemporary art 2012 WIEN i am digesting the previous years of artmaking, it feels i have to go back in time and finish what i had forgotten, overlooked or could not yet have understood in those days