Selected Artist Books
Voynich voyage
The Voynich Manuscript is a 240 page medival book that has never been decoded. I made drawings on waxed paper that I crafted, inspired by this book.
2018
Edition of 1
Handmade wax paper, ink
16 sheets, no binding, 16 x 16 cm
The Voynich Manuscript is a 240 page medival book that has never been decoded. I made drawings on waxed paper that I crafted, inspired by this book.
2018
Edition of 1
Handmade wax paper, ink
16 sheets, no binding, 16 x 16 cm
In my hand a miniature
My graduation thesis unfolds itself into a world of the portables, through the perspectives of Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte en Valise, Ursula Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, the ethnography of basketry, offering interpretations of what a carrier can be. The thesis exists as a mutable device that is a book, a bag, a miniature; a copy, a carrier, a collector, all in one.
‘I envy those sitting behind X-ray screens at the airport, the plumbers of individual homes, the housecleaners and the piano-tuners; they are the only invited eyes who view the hidden collections of a private space.‘
‘Half-baked works entwine in the brine of their mother sauces…’
2021
Numbered edition of 18
Paperback, sewn bound, textile, card
112 pages, 10.2 x 10.2 cm
My graduation thesis unfolds itself into a world of the portables, through the perspectives of Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte en Valise, Ursula Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, the ethnography of basketry, offering interpretations of what a carrier can be. The thesis exists as a mutable device that is a book, a bag, a miniature; a copy, a carrier, a collector, all in one.
‘I envy those sitting behind X-ray screens at the airport, the plumbers of individual homes, the housecleaners and the piano-tuners; they are the only invited eyes who view the hidden collections of a private space.‘
‘Half-baked works entwine in the brine of their mother sauces…’
2021
Numbered edition of 18
Paperback, sewn bound, textile, card
112 pages, 10.2 x 10.2 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 stitch binding, 21 x 30
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 stitch binding, 21 x 30
Traces from a table
I collected traces from a drawing table at the art academy in the Hague in a book form.
2018
Edition of 1
Glue bound, paperback
30 sheets, 4 x 10 cm
I collected traces from a drawing table at the art academy in the Hague in a book form.
2018
Edition of 1
Glue bound, paperback
30 sheets, 4 x 10 cm
Self Portraits by Strangers
I made a book using tracing paper and asked people on the streets to draw me, each time within a minute.
2018
Edition of 1
saddlestitch, clothbound
24 pages, 15 x 21 cm
I made a book using tracing paper and asked people on the streets to draw me, each time within a minute.
2018
Edition of 1
saddlestitch, clothbound
24 pages, 15 x 21 cm
A letter, or two
Annemieke Louwerens lent me a precious letter, written during WWII, from her grandfather to her father, sensored, sent from the Netherlands to Indonesia.
I made an exact replica of the letter and envelope and gave both to Annemieke.
2018
Edition of 1
Paper, ink
15 x 12 cm
Annemieke Louwerens lent me a precious letter, written during WWII, from her grandfather to her father, sensored, sent from the Netherlands to Indonesia.
I made an exact replica of the letter and envelope and gave both to Annemieke.
2018
Edition of 1
Paper, ink
15 x 12 cm
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
25 pages with drawings, 8 pages of the original plan, 21.5 x 15.5 cm
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
25 pages with drawings, 8 pages of the original plan, 21.5 x 15.5 cm
Ink soaked book (a 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.
2018
Edition of 1
Found book, Indian ink
26 x 30 cm
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.
2018
Edition of 1
Found book, Indian ink
26 x 30 cm
Writing translated into folds
I translated this text in a foreign language without using words. I made creases where all the words where and tried to replicate them again and again, through folding then photocopying the folds and traces. The results and experimentations are complied into a book.
2018
Edition of 1
Handbound box, loose sheets x 42
30 x 42 cm
2018
Edition of 1
Handbound box, loose sheets x 42
30 x 42 cm