Eternity-2

Eeuwigheid

2019, diabase, 20 cm diameter The spirals on the side and top are simple mathematical formulas. The spiral on the cylinder surface is a hyperbola of which I curled one axis around the cylinder. The spiral on the top, whose distance from the centre increases exponentially with the angle around this centre, took me a…

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Wormholes

2018, Belgian bluestone, 155*18*6 cm These four blocks were, still untouched, on the garden table in a (for me) beautiful and tight rhythm. That rhythm had to be maintained, so there was no other choice than to go with the drill and chisel in and through. The title came naturally, referring to piers in the…

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LGM-1: Little Green Men

2017, Belgian bluestone, 2 times 30*30*18cm The stone with the somewhat chaotic surface shows LGM-1: a signal from space, 12 lightyears away. As the discoverers did not know what it was, they concluded it was a signal from Little Green Men, LGM-1. This title is still being used for this discovery. The signal was recorded…

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Tribute to Noguchi

2017, Belgian bluestone, 35*25*13 cm Noguchi is a famous Japanese-American sculptor, see www.noguchi.org . In the absence of inspiration for a new sculpture, I flipped through various books about sculptors, including Noguchi. One of his works struck me: “Why didn’t I invent and make this myself?”. The answer is simple: there is only one Noguchi.…

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Eternity-1

2016, diabase, 20cm diameter, see also Eternity-2, 2019 The shape is based on the Tycho Brahe planetarium in Copenhagen, see https://en.planetarium.dk. Tycho Brahe is a 16th century Danish astronomer who laid the foundation for the work of Keppler and Galileo by being the first to measure the orbits of the planets very accurately. Some of…

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Landslide

2016, Belgian bluestone, 75*40*13 cm The idea of playing with two pizza slices came up after a visit to an Ellsworth Kelly exhibition in museum Voorlinden. I combined this with the question of what happens to a shape where you twist the top and bottom in relation to each other. I imagine that this occasionally…

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Brain Wave

2015, steel, Irish hardstone, 165*16*6 cm made in the Masterclass with teachers Adriaan Seelen and Gerard van Rooij. The photo on the left shows the Brain Wave as it hangs in the hall of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft, on the right it is in Adriaan Seelen’s studio in France. Below you…

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