Back Peter Hessel An image is placed in the middle of a large turntable. The lighting is controlled with a flash system. A photograph is taken every two centimeters. In total this involves a sequence of 125 photos per sculpture. The turntable and background […]

Back Ramon, 5 years old Milan and Ramon with my sculpture of Ramon, 2001 Rozenn, 2009 Jonas, 2005 Mayte, 2004 Lucien, 2001 Working with my grandchildren Lucien, 2009 Ramon’s sculpture, 2007. Ramon, 2007 Milan, 2005 Milan, Ramon, Mayte, 2002

Angry (2002) Red Travertine, 18 cm Back From the diary I wrote about my six grandchildren; all the times I used to babysit for them when their parents were at work: June 16, 2004. Milan almost 12. At half past twelve, I picked up […]

The Secret (2004) Pierre de Lens, 44 cm When I was eight years old, I was already aware of what secrecy was. You had to hide secrets well because they were dangerous. We had lived under the Japanese occupation in the former Dutch East […]

White innocence (2002) Back White Marble, 26 cm our colonial ancestors who built a prison camp in the jungle of New Guinea, malaria mosquitoes everywhere who locked up Indonesians there because of their writings pleas for independence, that is all their imprisonment had no […]

Unfired yellow clay, 13 cm Photo: John Kleinen, 1970 My father, Wim F. Wertheim (1951) In the spring of 1951 – I was sixteen years old at the time and was learning to sculpt at the Montessori Lyceum – I made this sculpture of […]

Ode to My Sons-In-Law (2002) Back White and Blue Marble, 33cm An ode to my three emancipated sons-in-law, who took care of their children half the time – from birth till they left home. Iron wire and wax model

Looking away (2001) Back Serpentine, 32 cm I turn away from injustice wherever I look killing on a global scale, sorrow what’s beautiful falls into insignificance while the ever-poorer poor fleeing for a better life  that is never offered to them  are considered suspicious […]