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Sensuous Colour

“Colour is a verb, a dance of movement; colour is the present moment, and yesterday she was a world apart.”

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The flow of Grey – Essay on Chantal Elisabeth Ariëns’ Where are you – Sirocco Journal

“It is the shades of grey that give these art works a lightness. Hopeful is the meaning Ariëns adds to …

The Ouroboros Orbit – 5-7 september presentation at Studio Trouble, Berlin

Throughout August, I will be collaborating with Uta Neumann on our Ouroboros Project. We will conclude this working period with …

Glinsteringen die je bij de kladden grijpen – Essay voor Kunstenlab

Op uitnodiging van Kunstenlab sprak ik op zondag 11 mei 2025 met Roos van Haaften en Pelle Schilling tijdens een …

Publication in ‘A Magazine Curated by’

Her Own Universe The magazine A Magazine Curated by has been in print for 25 years. They made an anniversary …

Relationships with Colour – podcast

Mater Podcast invited Lu and me to have a conversation about colour. We had a really nice chat. Relationships with …
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Lecture – Blau etc. at KHB Studios, Berlin

Invitation / Einladung / Uitnodiging Friday 11 April 2025, 19.00 – 21.30 KHB Studios, Nazarethkirchstraße 42, 13347 Berlin Colour Order/Disorder …
Blaue Stunde Berlin, Uta Neumann

Join us: Writing during the Blue Hour in Berlin

On Tuesday 8 and Wednesday 9 of April between 20h00 and 21h00 we will be writing during the Blue Hour …

A month in the Sahara – Tissardmine artist residency

… We were in a place where the sky was an orange and where we could touch the milky way …

Presentation of sketches; the dance of the rainbow serpent and the ouroboros

The month in Tissardmine was full of dreams. Daydreams were everywhere in the vast landscape, during walks, on dune ridges …

Artistic Research on Colour as a Sensual Experience

For a brief moment, we stand face to face with the animate, sustained by colour and time

‘De kleuren maken ons erop attent dat we ons met onze tijdelijkheid moeten verbinden. Dat het leven dan vloeiender en zinvoller wordt. Want dat is het wonderlijke aan ephemeral experiences. Juist door het vluchtige en vergankelijke in kunst te ervaren, komen we zo dicht als we kunnen bij de ervaring van eeuwigheid. We staan even oog in oog met het bezielde dat met kleur en tijd wordt gevoed.’

Uit: Kleuren bestaan bij de gratie van een moment, Mister Motley 26 september 2023

“The colours remind us to connect with our own transience — and in doing so, life becomes more fluid and meaningful. That is the beauty of ephemeral experiences. It is precisely through encountering the fleeting and the transient in art that we come as close as possible to the experience of eternity. For a brief moment, we stand face to face with the animate, sustained by colour and time.”

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