blue moon.

Fly spots turn brown on white and...




white on black.

That's an empirical conclusion :-)





I also made a Blue Moon mobile shooting last summer.

Sleep well.

Daan.

Visit from Daan&Nathaly last week; he was wearing

my winterboots although the temperature was

near 30°C :-)

I think my solar cushion needs some extra rows.

Have a nice weekend!

Metropolis, 2

Again a few years later :-)

People sometimes ask me if I could give them any

advice about the materials I use, well, I buy everything

what I can find for a giveaway price in thrift stores

and flea markets, and friends often give me their remnants;

this series is embroidered with DMC, that is pretty

expensive, but I also used ordinary knitting cotton,

the threads are composed off 12 fine fibres and

you can pull them off the same way as you do with DMC,

and that makes it much cheaper!

The painting is Brueghel's Tower of Babel.

next: more people coming.

sorry again for that moiré effect; please double click.

Metropolis.

I'm working on a new pincushion series:
'Metropolis, a growing city'

you can see the first pioneers in photo 1&2




and...




... 3&4 date from a few years later...





More people coming!
Goodnight :-)



ps.that moiré effect disappears when you enlarge the
photo after opening.

The garden.

some photos of my terrace:
coeur de boeuf tomatos, parsley and chives.



coriander which has bolted...




and also the marjoram, but that's ok; the flowers
attract bumblebees, which i need to fertilize my
tomato plants.

mint and cherries from the supermarket.

For Al, a white story.

36°C
I stay at home in my underwear and try to cool
down by sticking my head under the shower,
or in the kitchensink from time to time; that's
where a have met Al for the first time.
I dedicate this poem to him for he died from a broken
toe , unable to hunt anymore.
These images came popping up in my head after an almost
sleepless night, they only needed some editing to give
them sense, I think the poem is done now;
you might recognize some images of Dante's
famous Inferno and other stuff, but I guess that is
what automatic writing is, a mix of impressions and
thoughts, as in a dream.

here we go :-)

F I N

Some ships.

Love browsing in this book, especially chapter

ships and...

ships at war.

I'm thinking about another

'Age of discovery' story...

with Moby-Dick as the leading man :-)

We'll see.

Camera obscura.

Funny tiny lightspots appear all over the

place on sunny days; I once have read in a

sciencebook for children that these bright discs are

formed by little holes in the leafage of a tree for example,

and that they're in fact projections of the sun; so, after

I was intoduced by this phenomenon, I started to

search for these spots everytime I had a walk in the woods,

however, to my regret, I have never met any on my

expeditions :-)

Now they come popping up with hundreds in my

appartment, thanks to my Wisteria, who acts, when the

sun is shining as a camera obscura.

I was working on some kind of smyrna-sun too this weekend,

with coloured solar spots , and if you look closer you can see

an unexpected protuberance too :-)

Illustration by Rob Marcelis.

The word in the middle means 'pyjama party'

Tomorrow sunny again,

Sleep well :-)

A day in the country.

:-)

Battlefield.

Worked in the Tea Box Studio all day :-)

I've got two more characters now: Tim&Tom and their tree,

from the fleamarket.

2. Erupting volcano.

3. Dancing fly; I don't know what species this animal

was, but it danced in geometrical patterns, like a

character of the Triadic Ballet.

Look here, so you can see how she was moving, very

funny for an insect!

It is so hot here, tomorrow 36°C!

Sweet Dreams.