cairn - part 2

When ceramic artist Anita Huybens came back from a hiking tour through the Chilean Andes she started a series of works based on the local version of 'cairns' called Apacheta or Stone-men. Travelers passing over the mountains will place a stone on top of the structure to ask the spirits for a safe return from their journey. Anita's life is a long journey with many difficulties and so she made her own Stone Sculptures, each one with a meaning and symbolizing the good things and people around her.

cairn - part 1

Cairns are artificial piles of stones, often in conical form. They are erected as landmarks, indicate paths across stony or barren terrain. Along hiking trails it is traditional for someone passing to add a stone. These cairns are found all over the world in mountainous regions.

these 'cairns' marked the entrance to the site were Guy Forge had his sculptures during the art tour in Tourinnes-la-Grosse. I like this picture because it shows only stones. Man-made like the bricks of the wall in the back, the others from nature but still manipulated by men, into pavement or built up in a 'cairn'.
And of course, it needs no more explanation why I'm drawn to this : my obsession with piled up objects.

all posts on the art tour Fêtes de la Saint-Martin : click HERE

Gallery Hartdiest - part 2

gorgeous lighting by Marjan Vrankulj

assemblage by Lisa Mei Ling Fong


more assemblage by Raf Veulemans

intriguing piece by Raf Veulemans & Marc Janssens

art gallery Hartdiest - part 1

Dimitri Pichelle

Jo Pirard

Marc Janssens

Johan Nieuwborg

exhibition at Galerij Hartdiest

not a christmas tree

Merry Christmas

can't help it

Frozen Fountain

another 'pile-up' crazy object called Grandfathers Predilections

from Vika Mitrichenka

There seem to be a lot of people who like to pile up things

from Piet Hein Eek

furniture made from recycled boards

hadn't seen this 'bowl' before

I like to go to the Frozen Fountain when in Amsterdam
a shop in a nice location with interesting design

going crazy

the garden this morning was SO beautiful, I made hundreds of pictures. We're expecting visitors, otherwise I would still be making more.

Found this frozen pigeon in the garden yesterday, I can't get enough of this picture. I haven't figured out why.

self portrait

fascinating Lieve Prins

Strolling through the Jordaan quarter we noticed eye catching artworks in a window (that is why the image is not so good, taken from an angle to keep out my reflection). They reminded me of a performance we saw at a friends house who is a childhood friend of Lieve Prins. The works are from her latest series Idolls.
Lieve Prins is a pioneer in copy art. Manipulating the copier, building up her work with A3 and A4 copies, she developed a specific image language. A closer look on the 'Anthropomorphs' works reveals that the trees are made from arms, legs and hands. Gorgeous flowers are in fact fists, really fascinating to discover what the image is made from.

fluorescent environment

Also in the Jordaan quarter we spotted this through an open door. The round paintings caught my attention because of the interesting texture,like cracking peeling paint (I do have a soft spot for peeling paint). It seemed to be the latest work of artist Nick Padalino. The basement of the house contains The First Museum of Fluorescent Art ; a room sized Fluorescent Environment where the visitor becomes a part of the piece of Art, and then experiences "Participatory Art".
Because of the use of fluorescent paint and ink, his paintings and pictures will light up in the dark with the use of blacklight.