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Bookmaking: Finished journal with kraft paper

Oh yeah, I had a lot of fun making my first book for The Art Journal Project with Michelle Schratz. I used up a little of the enormous heap of kraft paper that I’ve been […]

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Commission: Capturing performance of ‘Fragile Earth’ by Antjie Krog

Over the last few weeks I had four photography commissions, in this blogpost I’ll give you an impression of the last one which took place on Saturday, 15 April. I captured the performance of the […]

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Slow Art Party: Orb

This week’s botanical pattern in the Slow Art Party was Orb. I don’t remember why Amy choose this word for this pattern, maybe it refers to the round shapes of the leaves. First we wet our small […]

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Commission: Public event ‘On Sacred Nature’

On 30 March, 2023 the Faculty of Religion and Theology at VU University organized the public event ‘On Sacred Nature’ at Rialto VU. “We invited famous religious scholar Karen Armstrong, Planetary Health Professor Pim Martens […]

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Slow Art Party: Rise

This week’s pattern in the Slow Art Party hosted by Amy Maricle was Rise. We just made elongated brush strokes in watercolour in either a straight or wavy line very slowly. Her brush would usually […]

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Venice in series: street abstracts

The second post of Venice in series of this year is about street abstracts. There is no strict definition of abstract photography, but the common element seems to be that it is about images in […]

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Venice in series: textured walls

As I mentioned in my last blog post I intend to publish a series of photographs I’ve taken in Venice, Italy during our stay there. The first in this series is about textured walls, Venice […]

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Our costumes and characters from La Commedia dell’arte

All of us dressed up as characters from La Commedia dell’arte. Photo by nillaaaax. As I mentioned in the first blog post of this series the theme of our costumes this year was Commedia dell’arte, […]

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Travel: Back from Venice, Italy 2023

Last week we came back from the carnival in Venice, Italy and we had a great time. It was our first time after three years when covid started. We’ve been there numerous times now, so […]