See, ‘The Indonesian who stole opium’, Gedèk (Camp Fence) (2006) Back Belgian Bluestone, 30 cm Gedèk is the Indonesian name for the fence that encircles the Japanese prison camp. It is made of tightly woven mats interlaced with barbed wire. You couldn’t see out […]

Pierre de Lens, 36 cm Cherishing (2004) Back two figures who cherish one another don’t write about it nor talk about it certainly don’t fuss about feelings maybe just think about it? no, not that either don’t waste any words on it just let […]

Fright (2001) Back Pierre de Lens, 17 cm From the Diary I wrote about my six grandchildren, all those times I took care of them when their parents were at work: November 28, 2002. Mayte 10 years, Lucien 9 years. We leafed through the […]

See Article: identity-all-of-us-are-combis/ Back Ode to the Composed Identity (2004) Different types of stone, 26 cm A person is comprised of many building blocks. Innate or developed during your lifetime. Woman, man, in between, child of (grand)parents, (grand)parent of (grand)child(ren), sister, brother, descent, origin, […]

The Scapegoat (2003) Alabaster in Blue Marble, 13 cm Back A scapegoat in the classroom is useful for bullies, but also for the rest of the students. Including those who only chuckle passively or simply keep their mouths shut. Everyone agrees about how awful […]

Mercy (2008) Red Travertine, 29 cm Back An Indonesian man is lying on the ground and asks the Dutch soldier pointing a rifle at him for Ampun (Mercy). This was during the time of the colonial war and the Indonesian people’s struggle for independence.

Strong Woman (2001) Our Indonesian nursemaid standing on her sturdy bare feet, carrying me on her hip. My mother was busy studying at university despite the fact that few girls back then did, and also married my Jewish father against her parents’ wishes. How […]

See, ‘The Indonesian who stole opium’, Spiral staircase (2005) Anröchter Limestone, 75 cm Back I wanted to sculpt a staircase and first made a model of it out of Marlstone. I thought of the handy tree-trunk stairs that the people of the Dogon region […]

The Measure of Things (2009) Back Iron and Serpentine, 36 cm they say that there is a measure for all things is there also one for sorrow that if I add this sorrow of now to all that came before until enough is enough […]

The Gallows Tree (2007) Back I carved this sculpture out of Alabaster, a somewhat translucent stone with irregular dark spots and called it ‘Gallows Tree’. Why I did will become clear when you read the story ‘The Indonesian who stole opium’, Alabaster, 48 cm. […]