Blog

  • Tokyo Time Travel, Back to 1994

    Revisiting Tokyo decades later became a personal journey through time. With only a few printed pages and sketches surviving from 1994, I recreated the story of the city by moving back and forth between the…

    Read more….

  • The Backstories Behind My Tokyo Shibuya Images

    The Backstories Behind My Tokyo Shibuya Images

    The series begins at the end of a long working day: office workers leave their buildings, board buses, and head home. Amid the motion, quiet moments emerge—a softly glowing pharmacy, a young woman tending flowers…

    Read more….

  • The Hidden Inspirations Behind Virtual Journeys.

    The Hidden Inspirations Behind Virtual Journeys.

    In this blog, I explore how collages, graphic novels, and photo novelles influenced the creation of my Virtual Journeys. From Georges Braque’s early collages to Marie-Françoise Plissart’s photographic storytelling, these forms shaped my photo-based, graphic…

    Read more….

  • Tokyo’s first impressions of an exotic metropolis

    Tokyo’s first impressions of an exotic metropolis

    During my academy years in Rotterdam, an exchange project with Tokyo gave me my first impressions of the city. I asked a fellow artist to capture Shibuya Station on film, drawn by its famous scramble…

    Read more….

  • Two Paths in My Work: Cities & Senses

    Two Paths in My Work: Cities & Senses

    Initially there was just one project / concept I was working under. Everything I made fell under ‘World Communication’ the theme I started at the Academy in Rotterdam. When I was processing the pictures from…

    Read more….

  • Explore the origins of the senses art project

    Explore the origins of the senses art project

    I have had an interest in languages and words/meanings for as long as I can remember. From the origin of words to the similarities in languages that evolve. At the art academy I tried many…

    Read more….

  • The Origins of Virtual Journeys: De Boompjes Connection

    The Origins of Virtual Journeys: De Boompjes Connection

    The very first idea of virtual Journeys started with an assignment in the mid nineties studying at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. The assignment was to create a monumental sculpture in the public…

    Read more….