some photo's of the research proces

A photo of a geometrical ornament in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin was the exemple for the drawings shown here below. The photo is printed on an A3+ format sheet of Epson Premium Glossy photo paper.



The same photo after sandpapering it, after stabbing it and cutting it. A ghost of the image remains.



Four drawings of the Pergamon ornament. Two drawings with pencil on paper and two drawings with watercolours. On 300 grams of Arches paper with a format of 31 x 41 cm.



The same four drawings after, on the top left, erasing it with an eraser.
On the top right the drawing is vanished by sandpapering it.
On the bottom left the watercolour drawing is stabbed with an awl and screwdriver.
On the bottom right the watercolour is cut into pieces.

The destructive actions to photo and drawings is filmed. Soon it will be edited and posted here and on You Tube.

womb & tomb

On the top left : Mother Kali,
Hindu goddess from India,
womb and tomb,
she creates and destroys worlds,
female, black, time,
standing on the body of Shiva.
Kali, Tara, Shodashi, Bhuvaneshvari, Bhairavi,
Chhinnamasta, Dhumavati, Bagalamukhi, Matangi, and Kamala.

order & chaos

Two journal-drawings from July 2008.
The first line drawn on a white sheet of paper damages, attacks and destroys the white paper.
The paper destroyed the tree.
Creating is destroying, bluntly said.
Every construction is damaging the earlier state.
Making and creating is in the same time damaging and destroying. This is a conclusion after one year of Surface Research.

Surface Research Results Exhibition # 2

Monday May 31 2010 / 12:00 - 19:00 h
Tuesday June 1 2010 / 17:00 - 21:00 h
Wednesday June 2 2010 / 12:00 - 19:00 h
Thursday June 3 2010 / 9:00 - 14:00 h

Pavilion Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Fred Roeskestraat 96
1076 ED Amsterdam

encore trois semaines

Within three weeks my Surface Research project has had it's first year. Much too short and it passed away like a cigarette in smoke. Fast, pleased with the prospect but finally dissatisfying when the end is near. Why? Because many questions aren't answered, the subject of the destructive element in creating art pieces isn't yet clear to me. The palimpsests and the specific texts used in the palimpsests were a start that dealt with construction and destruction. Precise construction by drawing the texts in grids using a ruler and compasses, well kept in hand destruction by scratching out the texts with a cutter.
After that I made a step backwards by working with specific conditions of a surface which is going to be used for drawings. It was necessary that dimensions had a reason and that is why I worked with the Golden Ratio and the Triangle of Kepler. Again many possibilities in drawings and the destruction of the drawings has been invested.
In the final three weeks I am going to make some new "destructed" drawings to complete the exhibition I am planning for Monday May 31 till Thursday June 3 in the Rietveld pavilion.

Invitation card will be posted soon on this blog.

destruction & construction summary

Nine different states of the same drawing, the final state is the first image here above. While drawing today during the workshop we talked about construction and destruction. We tried to understand Piet Mondriaan's quote: "I think the destructive element is very much neglected in art". And that is why we made drawings by drawing a construction that had to be destructed afterwards. Tomorrow I am going to write more about this subject. So see you...

to destruct & to construct

The drawing which ended yesterday's item about construction & destruction.The eight photo's herewith are from the same drawing. The destruction "evolutes" and finally the drawing has disappeared enough so a new drawing can overwrite the destructed surface.

creation & destruction

First state of Thursday April 8. Seven states of the same drawing are shown here, because I would like to show creation and destruction. To be continued tomorrow...













On a sheet of paper with proportions of the golden ratio I constructed with diagonals, cross points, horizontal lines, vertical lines and lines drawn with the compasses a web that is very dense.
It is possible to accentuate a pattern in the web, or to draw a composition with the web of guide lines. Foreseeing it is going to be a composition for destruction. By scratching it out with hatch lines all over.
Afterwards I want to try to start a new drawing over the destructed drawing. In one day : construction - destruction & construction again.

According to Piet Mondriaan : "I think the destructive element is very much neglected in art".