Aerial views of the landscape are the ‘bedrock’ of my artistic expression. Reflection on landscape as influenced by human activity is most often the conceptual background that interests me. Sometimes, the works are simply a meditation on the beauty and complexity of nature.
The actual making process is usually done in the presence of classical, jazz or world music or the song of birds in the garden. The making is like trained hands performing as dancers. "I USED TO BE AN IOWA CORNFIELD"; 1983, was my first externalized Black Box Drawing. The title refers to nuclear missile silos situated on farmland in the upper Midwest USA. The grid system of canals, tree lines and roadways in the Netherlands, nurtured the grid imagery which became a metaphor for the attempt humans have for controlling the landscape. In 1984-85 I worked at the ceramic studio of Lies Van Huet, in the northern Dutch province of Groningen. |
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