Take My Sacrifice

Edible scupltures

Breadmaking and painting during the Open Studio's 2024 at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam

Agnus Dei 

2024

Wooden room divider painted with casein and pigments.

183 cm x 230 cm x 4 cm

A triptych depicting the offering of lambs. The child is the carrier of the burden of other generations. 

The offering is to call out the ufo’s that are hoovering in the landscape as japanese styled shoji walled buildings. 

Included a selfportret holding my father as a Peacock. 

Especially made for Open Studio’s at Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten that will take place in May. The month that is associated with offering ceremonies.

Lustrum

2024

Oak roomdivider painted with casein and pigments.

183 cm x 140 cm x 2 cm

The apocolyps as told by my father.

The condemned are left and not to be taken by the aliens. The aliens will save only the enlightened from a sunflair that burns the surface of this earth. A biblical angel appears as butterflywings. Cavedrawings are all what is left of us.

It was told that it would happen within 5 years, but it never did.

Breadmobile

2024

Temporary sculpture made from bread. Text is painted with edible ink.

Hanged on musicbox with a sleepsong for children. 

Untitled Tablecloth, part 2

2023

228 cm x 142 cm

Orezome-shi technique with discoloring of the fabric.

Slaap Kindje Slaap

2024

Colored pencils on cottonpaper.

Wooden frame painted with casein and pigments.

45 cm x 32,6 cm x 2,5 cm

Take My Sacrifice

2024

Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam

Hinge

2024

Wooden room divider painted with casein and pigments.

183 cm x 120 cm x 2 cm

A family portrait.

Photography by Bram Vreugdenhil

Installed at Dordrecht Museum as part of the De Scheffer nominations

Paradise NR.2

2024

Wooden room divider painted with casein and pigments.

183 cm x 230 cm x 4 cm

A version of paradise, depicting Maria, the tradition of dressing up on days that are on the border of life and death (dia de la muerta, halloween) and plants and flowers that are associated with death.

Photography by Bram Vreugdenhil

Installed at Dordrecht Museum as part of the De Scheffer nominations

Sky Burials

2024

Colored pencils on paper (250 gram) Casein and pigment wash.

Wooden frame painted with casein and pigments.

42 cm x 59 cm x 2 cm

Apocalyptic scene when the sky will fall down on us. Scenes in front of altars and prayers to conjure the inevitable.

Photography by Bram Vreugdenhil

Installed at Dordrecht Museum as part of the De Scheffer nominations

Untitled

2023

Colored pencils on cottonpaper.

Wooden frame painted with casein and pigments.

45 cm x 32,6 cm x 2,5 cm

Illustrating death masks as past lives and flowers that are flowers that are associated with death.

Photography by Bram Vreugdenhil

Installed at Dordrecht Museum

Sundogs

2023

Colored pencils on cottonpaper.

Wooden frame painted with casein and pigments.

45 cm x 32,6 cm x 2,5 cm

Natural phenomena illustrated that look like supernatural phenomena. 

Illustrated: Sun Halo, dun dogs, Brocken Spectre phenomenon, sky mirage, moonbow.

Photography by Bram Vreugdenhil

Installed at Dordrecht Museum

Our Father In Heaven, 2023

Wooden roomdivider with 5 panels. Painted with casein and pigments.

183 cm x 200 cm x 4 cm

Unfair 2023, Westergas Amsterdam

- Maitreya Institute (Tibetan Buddhist center), 2023

- ISN Fatih (Islam, Turkish mosk), 2023

- Shiva Hindu Temples, 2023

- Portugese Synagoge

2023

A series of drawings commissioned by the City Archive of

Amsterdam. A research into 4 religious institutes in the city

center. The main perspective in this research was to discover how

different groups see a different/same future and/or afterlife.

Colored Pencil and graphite on A2 paper.

Stopmotion animation, LANDSCAPE, HEAVEN, BANNER, EYES, 2023

Loops

Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam