# 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. I will pick up these elements and clear away the rest. This exercise reflects the urgency to move forward. 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 as much as possible. Carla, The Hague 2024 #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 THE HAGUE #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