My Text Based Art
Texts in monochrome material paintings, which are not paintings, because no paint is used but real materials.
dated 2020 until 2020
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Blood, Sweat & Tears
2020
RAAN = BLOOD
Chillies, woodglu, varnish
75cm x 45cm x 3cm.
Timor-Leste's strugle for independence started long befor the 24 years of occupation by Indonesia, it started wit the occupation and colonisation by Portugal long before. Lot of countries let Timor-Leste down in the second world war, after 1945 and looked away when Indonesia invaded (1975) with the permission of the US!
Black, Yellow and Red are the 3 colors on the Timorese flag, with a white star.
Blood, Sweat & Tears
2020
KOSAR = TEARS
Tumeric (yellow rood / curcuma), woodglu, varnish
75cm x 45cm x 3cm.
Timor-Leste's strugle for independence started long befor the 24 years of occupation by Indonesia, it started wit the occupation and colonisation by Portugal long before. Lot of countries let Timor-Leste down in the second world war, after 1945 and looked away when Indonesia invaded (1975) with the permission of the US!
Black, Yellow and Red are the 3 colors on the Timorese flag, with a white star.
Blood, Sweat & Tears
2020
MATAN BE'EN = TEARS
Coffee residue, woodglu, varnish
75cm x 45cm x 3cm.
Timor-Leste's strugle for independence started long befor the 24 years of occupation by Indonesia, it started wit the occupation and colonisation by Portugal long before. Lot of countries let Timor-Leste down in the second world war, after 1945 and looked away when Indonesia invaded (1975) with the permission of the US!
MALAE MUTIN
2020
Malae Mutin (Foreigner White) is our "title" in Timor-Leste.
MALAE MUTIN
Look sharply you can read it behind the Bible and Dollar papers.
75cm x 45cm x 3cm
3D letters, Bibel pages, 1 dollar notes, wood glue, Varnish on Canvas.
MZUNGU
2020
MZUNGU
Grounded bones / woodglue / canvas stretcher frame.
A more personal site specific work about me in Zambia en Malawi, where this word is called to you outside the city, mostly if your alone, and mostly ment positive, but almost every day.
Mzungu means: white person / white god / white gost.