Experimental 3D artwork: My identity crisis and search for my place as an inhabitant of this world resulted in an experimental of 'divine madness' products very worthy of the Homo Ludens...
dated 1995 until 2006,
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In the search of my identity I can be a 'playing man'. Here I try to show in my atelier, with 'divine madness' and my painted bottles (in the form of an installation), questions about existence...! If you only think about this projection, I reached my goal!
American musician,Chet baker, who trew away his life with drugs and alcohol and even had a tragical end falling (drugged) from the window of a hotel in Amsterdam, Holland
A tropical bird (selfportrait)on a toiletcover with a brush stuck through it and mixed media like shredded money bills, reflect my meditations and feelings in the cold and wet Holland during my divorce process... how crazy can divine madness be?? Now it's even for sale...
My personal experience projected in the Aruban natural bridge going to the Deventer Lebuinus church. 'Head of our first bed', grinded moneybills, bullets and other materials symbolizing the painful experience that a divorce often implies...
Carnival is part of life in all kind of levels.. The tragical and comical essence and aspects of life are included... Spinning and other bottles on a wooden box!
My integration process implied an identity crises in the broadest sence of the word, untill I accepted my state as citizen of the Dutch Kingdom and this world, with Aruba and the Caribbean as my Roots... Definitely not for sale!
Of course I cannot forget my uncle Padu, DECLARED cultural father of Aruba and co-composer of the Aruban hymn. Besides musician, also pioneer in writing, painting, singing and a lot more... Modern time universal genius?