Dutch Heroes Comic Con Winter Edition 2023
It was cool again.
A few photos from a quick edit for a friend.
Pictures from Salt Lake City
Some pictures from my stay in Salt Lake City.
Coming and Going by Jim Goldberg, collosal, consume in small bites
This is so cool. I look at the massive photo book (is it a photo book you may ask; more like a colossal collage book) Coming and Going by Jim Goldberg is so large that it is difficult to handle. The book is heavy, and the pages are enormous. Small photos are blown up over a spread; there are densely packed pages of images and text and blank pages with a small photo in the middle of the page. But it is brilliant. It inspires, saddens, and shocks; it is beautiful, sweet, and heartbreaking and follows each other in rapid succession.
Consume in small bites.
Dali to Derry in a day
Today, we visited the Dali exhibition in Fabrique des Lumieres. A fascinating light show has been constructed in the former factory at the Westergasfabriekterrein in Amsterdam. The show is supported by intimidating music from Pink Floyd, mostly from Dark Side of the Moon.
Back home, we binge-watched Derry Girls on Netflix, a delightfully insane series about a group of young people in Northern Ireland. The show was supported by “Teenage Kicks” of The Undertones, one of the most effective songs ever if you listen carefully.
Drawing has to come out of your body
One of the things you’ll hear people say, when they tell me they wish they could draw, is, “I see it in my head, but I can’t get it onto the page.” And then I have to remind them that what they’re seeing in their head is not a drawing. Drawing is something that has to come out of your body.
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My task — and it can be done within 30 minutes — is to get them past that. … The easiest way to do that is to have them close their eyes and draw. … The trick is to show them that there’s another kind of drawing that is very different than representational drawing
New work: Albini digital prints
New work. Digital prints, 40x40cm, limited edition. I think I’ve been done with digital work for a while now. There are a few more to go, but analog work is also coming.
Amazon makes us pay too much
Amazon makes us pay too much, which is friendly phrasing for Amazon rips off all off.
Don’t buy through Amazon anymore. I quit.
Tamar Frank’s redefining Light Space in Hilversum
Another video of work by Tamar Frank in Museum Hilversum. From our visit yesterday.
Popel, Light Spaces, time travel
I visited my mother yesterday. A cousin of hers (what’s that to me?) delved into the family history, and it produced new material that I am now taking with me. Old photos of my grandfather’s brother and their parents, and even further back. It’s going into the archives.
I see myself, an age ago.
I drove on to Museum Hilversum and saw the exhibition. Popel Coumou and Tamar Frank have arranged Light Spaces. I was especially curious about Popel Coumou‘s work. I had heard of her in the podcast Springvossen and seen her work online, but I did not know Tamar Frank’s work.
Passing the cash register in Museum Hilversum is a small task for someone who is not that keen on conversation. The extremely friendly staff wants to explain the exhibition and the building in which the museum is located, the old city hall, where even the prison is still preserved – in the women’s restroom – I now know.
Eventually, I am let loose in the museum. Light Spaces is inspiring. Very rewarding.
Outside, It just won’t stop raining.