- lost in [ ]
lost in [ ]
Defining my graduation project, by analyzing the project’s title, and emphasizing this “interspace” where a lot of communication gets lost when using “distancing devices” that create the delay in the dialogue.
February 2021 - le père goriot
le père goriot
Using a second hand book in French (which I can’t really read) as a notebook.
February 2021 - endless printing
endless printing
Trying to print an infinite loop with a regular printer, by putting a long piece of paper in the paper tray and sticking the beginning and the end of the paper to each other.
February 2021 - visual poetry
visual poetry
Inspired by concrete and visual poem, creating a poem that can be read apart and as a whole with magnets.
February 2021 - intimations
intimations
Reading and editing Intimations by Zadie Smith.
January 2021 - handwriting
handwriting
Reading about mirror-neurons and bodily sensing.
January 2021 - lost in latency
lost in latency
Working on my thesis about delayed, disconnected and distorted communication.
January 2021 - notebook collection
“You can’t teach creativity; all you can do is let it blossom”
– Peter Graynotebook collection
Researching how notebooks can actually create creative space for creativity to blossom.
January 2021 - we experience by movement
we experience by movement
Thinking about the role of movement in perceiving.
January 2021 - spatial poetry
spatial poetry
Notes and texts displayed spatially in my studio, scanned and translated to 2D again.
January 2021 - layered lines
layered lines
Working with transparent paper to create layered lines.
December 2020 - crumbling paper
crumpling paper
Crumpling, smoothing out and scanning the same paper over and over again. Creating a notebook with crumpled pages and other paper defects and details, instead of blank pages.
December 2020
- folding folds
folding folds
Folding paper at the same place over and over again, until it’s seen on the scan, which is normally smoothed out as much as possible by the Evernote scanning app.
December 2020 - this is not a moleskine notebook
this is not a moleskine notebook
Thinking of a notebook with pages that contain scans of the famous Moleskine notebook, declaring it’s clearly not a Moleskine notebook.
December 2020 - on beauty
on beauty
Reading and editing the book On Beauty by Zadie Smith. Reflecting on the text, and weaving my own texts into it.
December 2020 - this is not paper
this is not paper
Making a bigger and bigger rip in the paper until the paper is not seen as “paper” anymore by the Evernote scanning app.
December 2020 - this book is probably stolen
this book is probably stolen
Creating a concept of a stolen book, after my notebook with wavy lines was “stolen” by a company, selling it without my permission on Amazon, without Amazon taking actions.
December 2020 - get your ideas flowing
get your ideas flowing
Experimenting with more creative lines for a notebook, after only being able to find notebooks with straight lines or no lines at all. Starting with one set of flowing lines, creating separate pages from it.
December 2020 - distanced printing
distanced printing
Sending (almost) daily a personal note to a printer in Groningen from Antwerp.
November 2020 - can you me read?
can you me read?
Trying to translate my Dutch handwriting to English with Google Lens. Ending up as the translator myself, as I change my handwriting and sentence so Google Lens can actually understand me.
November 2020