it’s a love story!
Earth + sea + geology + archeology + time + art + nature + 3D technology + future climate
conceptual porcelain | climate conscious ceramics | climate controversial ceramics
maker | researching various ceramic techniques | re-inventing historic porcelain- and Bone China – recipes | re-use, re-cycle, up-cycle with respect for re-sources, both natural and artifactual | hybrid fossils-artifacts | North Sea Mammoth Fossils Porcelain | The Hague Dunes Iron Age Pottery Porcelain | aardtijd | Bekers met Ziel | Cups with Soul | Raw Subscapes & Raw Plantscapes | still – life | plant made | botanical porcelain | Biodigital Eggshell Porcelain | Future Paleo Porcelain & more, while working with 3D technology, photography, texts and public interventions.
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Aanraakbaar maken van tijd & klimaat
Het gieten van het dunste doorschijnende eierschaal porselein is als een oefening in vooruitzien op een toekomstig klimaat om de poëzie van Aardse kwetsbaarheid en vergankelijkheid tot uitdrukking te brengen.
In deze werken is porselein geen ‘dood ding’. Eierschaal porselein is uiterst sensitief. Rauw en biscuit (of laag gestookt) porselein is poreus, waterdoorlatend. Hoog gestookt porselein is translucent, lichtdoorlatend. Regeneratieve transformatie vormt de kern van de serie Bekers met Ziel en ook het botanisch porselein. Actuele experimenten met porselein in water met levende wieren, algen en mossen bevragen percepties over levend, niet-levend, ooit-levend en nooit-levend.
Tangebility
Touching upon time & climate
Casting the thinnest translucent eggshell porcelain is an exercise in anticipation of a future climate to express the beauty of Earthly vulnerability and transience.
In these works, porcelain is not a ‘dead thing’. Eggshell porcelain is extremely sensitive. Raw and biscuit (or low-fired) porcelain is porous, permeable to water. High-fired eggshell porcelain is translucent, permeable to light. Regenerative transformation forms the core of the Cups with Soul series and the botanical porcelain. Current experiments with porcelain in water with living seaweed, algae, and mosses challenge perceptions of living, non-living, once-living, and never-living.
Artist-in-residencies at BC3, Basque Centre for Climate Change in Bilbao 2019; EKWC, the European Ceramics Work Centre in 2020; EKWC in 2021; Zone2Source Amsterdam 2021; Cascadas Artspace Barcelona 2022; Zone2Source Amsterdam 2022; ClayKitchen Portugal 2023; Zone2Source Amsterdam 2024; Kouraku Kiln in Arita, Japan 2024; Cool Clay Collective Rotterdam in 2025.
Biomorphic Porcelain, breathing before raw porcelain solidifies, Arita Japan
Seeking the light of the shadow, Arita Japan
solo exhibition Botanical Eggshell Porcelain themed around Oo Ichou, as the local community lovingly calls the 1000+ year old Ginkgo tree in their midst
artist-in-residency Kouraku Kiln in Arita Japan
3D scan, mold, botanical eggshell porcelain, translucent, recycled high fired porcelain, glazed
translucent botanical porcelain with Ginkgo ash glaze
Arita Japan
Biodigital Eggshell Porcelain
circular research Overlevers | Survivors, hommage to Ginkgo biloba, said to be a living fossil, a ‘tree that time forgot’ (Peter Crane)
Ginkgo Birth Tree, artist-in-residency Park Studio de Orangerie, Zone2Source Amsterdam
Plantscape, plantmade, botanical porcelain
Raw Plantscapes & Raw Subscapes
living leaves are in the proces of making imprints themselves in raw porcelain
aardtijd
Earth that lives, breathes, grows and shrinks
subsurface as living climate archive
raw, too vulnerable to touch while seeking sensorial intimacy with soil/Earth
17th century found majolica shard, raw Earth samples to depth of 10 meters & time-depth of 6.000 years collected during soil drilling Land in Wording in 2019
made during artist-in-residency at EKWC in 2020
The becoming, The being & The meanwhile
public soil drilling Land in Wording icw climate scientists: subsurface as living climate archive, Zone2Source Amsterdam, 2019
Gathering Dust, or delay as an artistic research method (2019-2022), performative intervention during exhibition at Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam 2022
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toenadering [ˈtunadərɪŋ] 2021 with danser-choreographer Kenzo Kesuda and artist Eline Kersten
Exhibition, part of Our Living Soil, Zone2Source at Glazen Huis, Amstelpark Amsterdam; Dagzomen, artist-in-residency at Park Studio de Orangerie, Amstelpark; finissage public Swamp Walk
hybrid fossils and/or artifacts
artist-in-residency ClayKitchen, Portugal 2023
24hr online global workshop following the sunrise around the globe with participants from all continents, Re-Peat Fest during Covid lockdown, 2020
next level Future Paleo Porcelain
next level Future Paleo Porcelain, 2025
themed around a museum object that cannot be touched: a tiny fossil of a whale barnacle, now extinct but proof that once whales swam in a primeval cold North Sea with drifting icebergs.
Hybrid Porcelain & glazes: a fossil is ‘re-fossilized’ in subsurface soils with a depth 164 meters below current street level with a time depth of 2 million years
artist-in-residency at Cool Clay Collective Rotterdam
icw Natural History Museum Rotterdam
finissage next level Future Paleo Porcelain artist-in-residency at Cool Clay Collective, Rotterdam
Shells on Shells
raw, recycled, fired, reversed Cardial Ceramics
Reversed Soft Shells
& Sublime Soft Stones, sculpted by nature
Neolithic Cardial Ceramics, reversed raw Soft Shells
artist-in-residency Cascadas ArtSpace Barcelona icw UAB, Autonomous University of Barcelona, dept. Archeology
artist-in-residency at Cascadas ArtSpace, Barcelona
immersive climatescapes, conceptual porcelain, hybrid fossils-artifacts, hybrid living fossils
Beker met Ziel | Cups with Soul
The Hague Dunes Iron Age Porcelain
re-cast as repository | residual intimacy
re-inventing historic porcelain – and Bone China recIpes, artist-in-residency EKWC 2021
Neolithic Iron Age pottery shards collected in The Hague Dunes, (volunteer in) archeology
Open Studio Test Case XXIV at EKWC, introducing The Hague Dunes Iron Age Porcelain & – Celadon at – the European Ceramics Work Centre, 2021
reinventing Bone China, re-recycling Iron Age pottery shards with mosses; inspired by prehistoric recycling of a broken pottery shard for a spindle whorl; 2nd artist-in-residency EKWC – the European Ceramics Work Centre, 2021
North Sea Mammoth Fossils Porcelain
sedi | senti | ment
re-inventing historic porcelain- and Bone China recIpes, artist-in-residency EKWC 2020
Testsite for artistic field research and Building with Nature: sand from the bottom of the North Sea is put on the foreshore to improve a human induced more natural coastal protection by making use of winds & sea currents; geology
Open Studio Test Case XXII at EKWC, introducing hybrid porcelain: North Sea Mammoth Fossils Porcelain & – Celadon at EKWC – the European Ceramics Work Centre, 2020
3-d printed North Sea Mammoth Fossils Porcelain & – Celadon; artist-in-residency at EKWC – the European Ceramics Work Centre, 2020
a human induced natural phenomenon, video
artist-in-residency Praputnjak, Croatia, 2017
walking all the shores of the Netherlands, 2014 & 2015
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