How come that something that I don’t even recognize as having made myself is so popular? When posting on Facebook that I was selling out paintings, most reactions came for this one. Leaving a big questionmark above my head.
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The first who asked for this painting was Amarins. So she got it.
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Now it is where a painting belongs. On a white wall, above a couch in between other art and some nice lighting where people can enjoy it.
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Now I found out that selling paintings is also a nice way to get an insight in other peoples livingspace.
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Thanks Amarins! (still think you have a strange name, makes me think of a wierd fruit since it sounds like ‘tamarin’)
When I took the picture it was because of the contrast of the young man tying his shoelaces against the background of cars moving by. I can remember liking the concentrated position and the colors of a moving BMW. Even though I generally find cars highly overrated in praktical way -I’d rather bicycle- when it comes to easthetics I find BMW’s pretty high on my list. It was in Berlin that I took this picture.
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Now it’s hanging in a kitchen, in Berlin, in between shelves with tea and breakfast and old Dutch communist party-posters providing a nice perspective on this picture. This kitchen is quite cozy, in fact the entire appartment is. It’s a little messy, a little improvised and everywhere is some kind of creative expression to be found.
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It’s the kitchen of my two friends. The past year this appartment has been my home-base in Berlin. When working and meeting there for Masta-magazine I would stay in the livingroom, cook a bit in this kitchen and have chats and beer with Joep and Julia, the residents of this appartment. » Continue Reading…
This is how the first painting I sold in years looks like in it’s final, well maybe not final, destination. Proud to be hanging in Bram and Lonja’s livingroom.