A wonderful start for my book OUT OF FASHION | THE NEW FASHION. Textile View Magazine (issue 117) featured it with 8 full color pages.
Publisher and editor David Shah calls the 412 page book “A prayer book to textiles”.
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AUTUMN BLUES
On the cover of the Dutch Interior Magazine VTwonen with my blue Indigo Pigment canvas works.
Thanks to Raw Materials, Marianne Luning and Anna de Leeuw photography.
OUT OF THE BLUE
Out of the Blue | 2015 nr 8 Indigo Pigment on linen canvas 80 x 120 cm
After years of travelling, capturing traditional Indigo dyers all over the world, and collecting Indigo pigments. I developed in 2015 a special method working with Indigo pigments on canvas.
Amsterdam Denim Days April 2016
THE COLOR OF MONEY
Collecting and gathering money makes the world go round since ages.
Is the end of money in sight, with cash bank transactions dropping 98% since 1985 and local banks closing?
Will today’s children grow up looking at banknotes like we look at shells? A colorful piece of paper, useless for payments, because paying is likely to be done with a fingerprint.
Giants Buddha’s and golden temples stand tall for ages, reminding us of the inherent Go(l)d we are. For the real gold rush no packing is needed.
Full article, including photo essay, published at Pantone View
THE GRACE OF GRAY
More than a color, gray is a state of being. As movie star Susan Sarandon puts it, “I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.”
Gray is the color of transformation. Gray is beyond the age of play, but yet lives lighter than any other color. Gray is the color of consciousness and, like a butterfly, flutters free, free, free. It is friends with all colors, but doesn’t need other colors to be in harmony with life itself…
Full article, including photo essay, published at Pantone View
HEAVEN’S DOOR
Something blue…
Out of the blue, I am into blue. On my walks, I am taking pictures of blue accents. Blue walls, doors and windows. Crossing the continents, blue pops up wherever I go. Back home, I sit back and tune in. What is happening here? What is this attraction to blue? What is blue? What kind of blue is it?
Blue is loyal, and blue is royal. Blue belongs to you and me, and is beyond belonging. Blue is the color of healing and peace, inviting us to open closed doors. Blue may be the very color of Heaven’s door…..
Full article, including photo essay, published at Pantone View
PLANT POETRY
My colour card for well-being is found in the souks of Morocco. The herbal and spice souks sell pigments to dye textiles, paint walls, flavour food, colour pottery and to heal body and soul. Pigment Poetry. Each store is a feast for the eye. Each display is a piece of art made with love. It is here where hope is bought and our senses wake up. Here, we find the mystical alongside the mundane. It is a true treasure and pleasure for all senses.
The Pharmacy of Paradise inspires me to dream, the stuff the future is made of…
Read full article on Pantone View
CODES + CHAOS
The digital revolution has plunged us into a world of exciting colour chaos, where we can explore all manner of possibilities. From this chaos, the focus shifts to colour individualization, rather than standardization.
While the old economy and world order are in a process of transition, we see new initiatives emerge globally. Social networks create new possibilities for true democracy. And in the ‘internet of things’ everything is possible. So what is the future of colours in a digital social society?
Read full article on Pantone View