Painting politician, political painter
Visiting Malta to get inspiration for my faction novel, this was the first photo I took of the capital, Valletta. Work was underway on the impossibly thick wall surrounding the new capital, which the Maltese started to build immediately after the Ottoman invasion of the island was repelled in 1565.So a restaurant was built IN… Continue reading Inspiration
Preparing a fourteen fold portrait of the great Frank Zappa I produced the preliminary you see below. The (black and white) reference photo you see in the middle of the photo above was (too) small. So I studied the (photo) of a statutue of him and close-up photos of eyes like those on the right.… Continue reading Finding that look in his eyes
I came across them in a former school building. The left door is for the pissoir, the other for the WC that one is supposed to sit on. But in the war over the toilets in the context of the transgenderism agenda, it is of course not about those small spaces in which that exit… Continue reading Sensible gender signs on toilets
Millions of horses and mules died in Wordl War I.Steven Spielberg made a movie about the fate of the animals.You can find information about the real story behind this here. To make this photo must have taken lots and lots of preparation. Literally hundreds of men participated in the project. Look through your eyelashes at… Continue reading Warhorses
Since I took the photo above and below almost 10 years ago as part of my preparations at Malta for writing my faction novel (in Dutch under pseudonym), I’ve learned a lot more about the topics mentioned in the title.At that time I had not yet heard of the horrible organized betrayal and global lust… Continue reading Aristocratic cowardice, betrayal and opportunism
Cute. I showed some paintings in a nicely positioned booth at this exposition called Nationale Kunstdagen (National Art days) in Gorcum, but I was bothered by people who walked too close around the corner and so too close to the paintings. The organization found the graceful improvised barrier I added sufficiently ‘creative’.
