Rod puppets in the making

For the most part, these rough guys are made of paper. The heads can be turned from inside with the hand holding it; this is where you find other materials I used – like tubes for bicycle handlebars, small cut wooden boards and dismantled curtain rod holders. The figures aren’t painted or dressed yet.

It’s summer where you are

Partaking in the Arthouse 2012 Sketchbook Project – almost done.

So I asked friends to read the note on a piece of paper I handed them while I took pictures, printed the photos on transfer paper for t-shirts and ironed them on the pages. This took about three times the amount of paper plus extra cartridges, and made it look like it is – somewhat experimental. At the end it’s revealed what the note says – guess what ! (… see title)

More forest drawings

What Do You See

‘See What You Don’t’ (2011)

It also means ‘Hear, Smell, Sense, Remember, Know What You Don’t’ without trying to explain, interprete, analyse, measure, compare, or make sense of it.

Tree drawings

February 2011, New York

Machines & Snow

What has been a virgin white surface now slowly changes again, giving glimpses on what’s been buried underneath in the long months of winter; machines, vehicles, equipment, parts, tires, old bags, containers …
The softness of the snow and the perseverance of the machines withstanding seems contradictionary yet illusive; as, even as the snow yields to spring, it will come back when the machines are long gone.

More Mystery pages

The railing is a line in the mystery landscape even as the fence in the pasture. I took any line as a path for the map; golden threads, stamped lines, written words and overlapping names, lines from water system construction illustrations. Anything will take you on. The mystery is not absent, it is right here … just where are you ?

I wish I’d had more time to properly finish the book – but then, it probably would have taken years and years.

Mystery Maps, a project from Arthouse Co-op

So I’m participating in the Arthouse Co-op Sketchbook Projekt 2011, starting at the end, at the beginning and also right in the middle.
Tools & materials I’m using so far:
Acrylic paint, ink, ballpoint pen, fixative spray, coffee staints, postage stamps, ribbon, my little brother’s toy rubber stamp letters, adhesive letters found in a partially burnt hole driller truck, cake paper, iron-on transfer paper.