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Seeker — Observer — Amplifier

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Candy Colors over Destruction, mixed media, fragmented edition

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Boundless Mutual Connection Through Art

Candy Colors over Destruction

A devastated Homs, divided into fragments and sent into the world. 

Every fragment acquired becomes part of a growing network of people, held together not by ownership but by empathy and a shared belief in what might still be built.

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Hilde Wassenaar

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Steffy Dittrich

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Abram de Swaan

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Noraly Beyer

Carrying a piece of a story

Anyone who acquires a fragment becomes part of the work’s continuing story. A photograph with the piece, and an exchange of contact details, becomes part of the record — this site doubling as a meeting place for everyone now holding a fragment of Homs.

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Welcome

Art begins where certainty ends. It is rooted in looking beyond appearances, into the layers beneath the visible, where meaning gathers within ambiguity and contradiction.

Seeker

In a time saturated with noise, abundance, and distraction, the search is for substance, for ideas and questions that resist easy answers, and for the deeper layers of meaning beneath the surface.

Observer

A fascination with the fragile relationship between humanity and nature and with the tensions between beauty and decay, vulnerability and resilience, and connection and isolation.

Amplifier

Observations are transformed into visual form. Through material, image, and color, emotion and experience are translated into work that invites a second, closer look.

Gallery

Three decades, one continuing inquiry

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1973 – 1978

I held my first exhibition at Sociëteit Het Park. The response was encouraging, there was strong interest, and many works were sold.

This was more than a success; it was a necessary condition for continuing as an artist in a context without social support systems, where sustaining a practice depended directly on public engagement and sales.

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2015 – 2021

This work belongs to a series that marks the result of my first exploration of transparent sheets and jute, where two contrasting materials reinforce each other from their unique physicality

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2023 – present

My research into the interaction of materials gradually led me toward this visual language, a direction that resonated naturally with my artistic development.

More than a new approach, it opened a space for continuity, growth, and deeper exploration.

Expanding narratives

Projects that extend beyond the individual

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LUMORAS

A more intuitive path toward awareness, where material and form engage the imagination and open space for reflection on existence, continuity, and evolution.

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MEMOS

A reflection on cultural memory and loss and on what is severed when a nation’s intellectual life is cut from its roots.

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The Intellectual Decapitation of Suriname

A reflection on cultural memory and loss — on what is severed when a nation’s intellectual life is cut from its roots.

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About

“I have been drawing, painting, and making images since I was a child. What was an instinctive need to create has become a long artistic practice. My practice is long, rooted in the idea that any image, object, memory, or fragment contains a secret story that is waiting to be found.