Friday, December 24, 2010

casamaggiore

Casamaggiore 21 12 2010
View on the neighbours: lapping pigeons

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

view Perugia

view Perugia, roofs in the fog...

Thursday, December 16, 2010

on their place..


the art works on their place: IJslandsmos 1, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Hefswal, a special place with memories

House, made by Indy (7 years old)
Castel, made by Anthon (9 years old)
Neighbours house (by Agnes)




Sunday, December 5, 2010

Saturday, December 4, 2010

house Vienna

house Vienna

window

Window I
Window II
Window III

Friday, November 26, 2010

"It's my party and I cry if I want to"
(dedicated to my grandmother)

Vienna

We walked in the cold air, freezing breath on a window pane


Monday, October 18, 2010

Anthon's house

I'm proud on my cousin! This is his house and he's 9 years old. I love the way he made this... Wish I could.

Sunday, October 3, 2010


Przemysl (psjemsl)

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Arvo Part in Leipzig


A kind of symbolic feeling: here in 1989 in the Nicolaikirche started the protests wich leaded to the fall of Die Mauer. Today we heard and saw Arvo Part's Te Deum. In this church. It was more than overwhelming... The coir, the violists, chello, the bass...

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Tuesday, September 28, 2010


Maja in Ustrzyki Dolne already told us: 'you'll like Wroclaw more than Krakau'. I think she's right. I noticed buildings (ex Soviet) and they seemed to be snatched out of my older paintings. All that windows, the rhytm!
This is the market. We feel pity about the rain...

Monday, September 27, 2010

Auschwitz

After a warm en intense stay in Ustrzyki Dolne today a cold (9 degrees) windy and rainy day somewhere else. On the map it's called Oswiecim. The history tells me the most terrible things and my eyes see the truth that happened. No pictures, no drawings today. Only unbelief. About Auschwitz/Birkenau. I thougt I knew. I thought I listened to my teachers. I thought I understood the books, Anne Frank, you know.. Nobody knows.


Sunday, September 26, 2010




Wawel Castle Krakow

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Nowa Huta


Nowa Huta is more than only a Stalinic concept


Entrance Huta im. Tadeusza Sendzimira. Mad pride. The locals call it Dogue Palace, or  Vatican.....


Krakow

Friday, September 24, 2010


Rynek Glowny Krakow


Pawia/Lubicz Krakow

Thursday, September 23, 2010

dziekuje!



Children need colours and free space to explore and to discover their needs. Colours give positive emotions and playing with colours gives freedom to create your own imaginary world. I think it works like that.
I did several projects with children all over the world; children in bad situations. And always I had the experience that these way of creating freedom - create your own colourfull life- is a way to feel free and a little bit more happy. Here in Ustrzyki Dolne I started only with colours. The children might to stick them on the wall. It's interesting to see which children choose for sticking the coloured pieces horizontaly and the ones who stick them vertical. Is there a difference between the emotion of being satisfied and be in a horizontal way or the need to go further, ahead and try to climb a staircase to the vertical chances? For instance, it's a nice topic for psychologists, but I'm an artist. I see and feel what happens when I want to build a imaginary cit with the kids.

I started with the colours: bright red, yellow and orange, the strong and warm colours. And a little bit of green and blue. After that I let the children compose their imaginary house, their future. The life after this school. These ingredients Itried to combine. The printed houses are only in red (the children made them by composing pieces of paper, so they could move the pieces of their house) and give a feeling of warm stability. I think this school and this environment will give them that. If we and they can make a combination in an artistic way with a lot of windows: the world will be ok for them.

Through the imaginary windows we will look at them, will watch them and take care. However, the windows will give them the space to look at the world, the people and all the things that are important to make your own mind about yourself and the others. I hope the colours will be the base and fundament for the artwork AND the school en I hope the children will use these colours the rest of their lives, maybe once in their own place or their own house.







Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Wow! Finished...












Tuesday, September 21, 2010

building a city, part II






Monday, September 20, 2010

We built a city! (with the disables children in Ustrzyki Dolne)
Tomorrow part II










Sunday, September 19, 2010

breakfast with the boys
in the neighbourhood of Ustrzyki Dolne
after 19,5 hours driving by car we came in Ustrzyki Dolne...
Krajowa
it seems to be a local drink

Thursday, September 16, 2010

thanks drukkerij Elgersma Zevenhuizen for donating thousands & thousands strips of coloured paper which we will use for building a new city
Thanks Allie de Koning from Elimschool Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel for let me use these linoleum rollers