BOOK PROJECTS
VOYNICH
Transparent book inspired by The Voynich Manuscript. Unreadable and coded.
2018
Edition of 1
Handmade wax paper, ink
16 sheets, no binding, 16 x 16 cm
Internet for Introverts
Drawings inspired by found architect’s sketches, in the streets of Paris. The drawings are folded and sewn shut, like the undecipherable sketch of the architect’s.
2017
Edition of 1
Yellow and blue tracing paper, black marker, ink, white ink, thread, card
16 sheets, machine straight stitch binding, 21 x 30
Scratch book
In life drawing class there was a table, so worn out that nobody ever wanted to use it. Paper would not sit flat on the table. Every line you make would end up bumpy.
I brought colourful crayons and made a book frottage in memory of the table.
2018
30 pages, glue bound, paperback, 4 x 10 cm
Self Portraits by Strangers
I had an assignment to make a self portrait and was tired of drawing myself. I made a book using tracing paper and asked people on the streets to draw me in a minute.
2018
24 pages, saddlestitch, clothbound, 15 x 21 cm
A letter, or two
My drawing teacher Annemieke lent me a precious letter for a drawing homework, written during WWII, from her grandfather to her father, sensored, sent from the Netherlands to Indonesia.
I loved the handwriting and wanted to copy it. I also wanted to learn Dutch. It turned into an exact copy of the whole letter. I was too afraid to copy the stamp. I returned both to Annemieke as a gift.
2018
Paper, ink
Signed Language
I found automotive design sketches slipped in a secondhand book bought in The Hague.
I redrew some of them and bound the sketches into the book at the end.
2018
Paper, original automotive sketches, ink, gluebound, hardback cover
Ink soaked book (contemporary drawing)
I found this broken book in the rain on the streets of Paris that was beyond repair. The spine was worn out and exposed in places. As an experiment I dripped ink across the spine and let the book dry out. I then separated the pages and composed them into these ink spreads.
Text interpretation through folding
I was given a text in a foreign language and was told to interpret it without using words. I made creases where all the words where and tried to replicate them again and again, photocopying them as well. I them complied them into a book.
