Stroll through neglected neighborhoods, where time has etched stories onto weathered, orphaned walls, cracked cement and pealing paint.
In these textures of decay I see a canvas for my imagination. That evocative mood urges me to create…
I invite you into my creative journey, an ongoing exploration through memory, material, and the layered depths of imagination.
My work explores the relationship between past and present, between what is visible and what remains beneath the surface.
Through materials, images, and concepts, I search for connections between memory, displacement, imagination, and form.
Since 2017, I have explored the interaction between transparent sheets (what I consider the canvas of the contemporary), and the ancient, tactile presence of burlap.
Within this dialogue, transparency and opacity, precision and rawness begin to shape a layered visual language.
Materials like transparent sheets and burlap function as carriers of meaning, bridging the contemporary with the historical. The work often reflects on displacement, fragmentation, and the traces that remain over time.
Projects such as Boundless Mutual Connection Through Art and The Intellectual Decapitation of Suriname, each develop their own unique dynamics, extending beyond the individual artwork.
They invite participation and connection, unfolding through shared fragments and collective experiences that bring the work into a broader, lived context.
With LUMORAS, I explore a more intuitive path toward awareness, where material and form speak to the imagination, opening space for a deeper sensing of our existence.
This website presents a curated selection of works and ideas, an entry point into an ongoing exploration.
In 1975, I held my first exhibition at sociëteit Het Park. The response was encouraging, there was strong interest, and many works were sold.
This was more than a success; it was a necessary condition for continuing as an artist in a context without social support systems, where sustaining a practice depended directly on public engagement and sales.
This work belongs to a series that marks the result of my first exploration of transparent sheets and burlap, where two contrasting materials reinforce each other from their unique physicality
With this style, I discovered something that resonate different, a direction that felt naturally aligned with my development.
It was not just a new approach, but one that opened space for growth, inviting me to explore it further with more depth and continuity.