front right, ron van der reijden-photo with gold leaf, the image is a handmade doll, no ai. instagram ronaldeduardart

invitation welfing/vault

drawing board of my father and a smaller one with photos of sensing an outside world,one with scratched drawing of a grid

scratch

comet halley as depicted in early seventeenth century.a comet predicts disasters..

numbers from astronomy

welfing/vault,a valley

in museum van de geest in the chapel i performed as theresia waking up to his true self

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night-fall/nacht-val.colorfield,hand stitched with uneven larger cross stitchings.i designed the colorfield as a floor skin,a soft sculpture,a skirt,a shelter

his fluids spilled, performance on l’origine du monde, a male obsession

rib or arch-I:geometrical shape.-II:seven male trousers make an arched rib.as they are soft the rib hangs down.stone ribs make domes possible.domes connect buildings of rulers and religions with the heavens,male dominance seemingly sanctioned by god

jacket worn as skirt-on male vulnerability

on love and longing-sixteen white shirts, male and female, lettered with the song of songs (hooglied), partly cut out to let the words reach the skin. no other text in the bible is so openly sensual, full of longing, physical longing too. unfortunately only female to male longing and vice versa. the performance speaks of disappointment and loneliness. words the woman speaks are on male shirts, the man’s words are on female shirts. hear my beloved, come to the park. handwork, done with pencil and scissors.this is on purpose to make it a fragile work mirroring love relations.wearing and thus cleaning the shirts will cause pencil lines to vanish and cut outs to wear out

still,hairy legs (see vimeo)

blue boy series, i was told blue boys was used for gay guys though not in my country. the photos were shot while lying on a floor. the original series is printed in black and white on dutch landscapes from a iconic series of book on the netherlands published in the fifties (when i was born). it is my first work on coming out

coming out

a la ferme,comme un garçon.coming out.prints on pictures from books of dutch landscape

attempted censorship

ink drawing on leather

i’ve been waiting too long (thanks marc deconinck)

reproducing twink,three photos with pubic hair

male extinction

male jewelry,pins

blue boy

cursed

censoring queer existence is common on social media

pistoletti on my mind

sonnet for tomassio (michelangelo)

icarus

gert hekma was teacher (and founder) of homo studies at the university of amsterdam.in this portrait made after his passing away i wear some of his collection of shiny sports shorts.he was a satinist he said.thanking mattias duyves his partner for the use of the shorts

portrait.shirt with automatic text on coming out

still,studying on bas jan ader

for him-embroidered drawing

paadjes/trails

atlas

dress for succes,the male uniform

in the beginning was the word,cut out

inside of reworked shirt

embroidered and cutout poetry-arnold spauwen

cutout poetry-jacob israel de haan

cutting out a poem by arnold spouwen

work in progress.poetry cutout-arnold spauwen

installation in a side room of a grand mansion.two male youngsters reaching for each other,arms in a bondage.they balance a female figure who swings between them.all clothes are specifically embroidered,by hand,for this installation with drawings on the fe/male.the woman wears a reworked man’s jacket with an added natural scene of a bought embroidery combined with hand embroideries.the men wear skirts,not to give them garments of the other but as a natural thing

part of 'anamorfose' a group shown in beeckestijn,velzen zuid,curated by bianca vooges

i see nothing/video nihillum-embroidery and stamped text on longing

cutout in sixteen male and female shirts-hooglied (song of solomon)

kunstkapel amsterdam. (art chapel)

a coat for poetry made from several coats the mother of the poet george moormann had made. non of the coats were cut except the one that make the big grey pockets in front. buttons of her other clothes and watches were used to decorate (and not spill any material)

a train of clothes as part of a project for george moormann (poet). his mother made all these clothes.

all shirts and skirts are hand stitched together in squares with cross stitches. every single piece can still be worn dragging behind you the rest

limbo/voorgeborchte. installation in museum zandvoort. two guys, dressed in embroidered jeans, in front of three photos in which another guy wears similar jeans while he dances (?) on a scaffolding. under the dancer portraits with a historical feel. as they say: we were always here and will always be here. three more jeans in a show case. one sees the backside (wrong side) of the embroidered colorfields which are inspired by the hanky code the title suggests queers are predestined to be in (the) limbo forever. if lucky…

psssst (once I was in the lead of a charity thrift shop)

respirare(breathing)lotus meditation posture:counting the breaths for a fixed time.stitches around the feet resemble the number of breaths

painting by simon o’corra.depicting a coming out for which i posed as one can see from the tattoos on the legs in the mirror.

a soft sculpture,inspired by a poem in pomes penyeach of james joyce as part of a project after an idea of julia barnes.she composed music for all poems.words were translated in dutch by bindervoet and henkes.inge weeda engraved the poems on perspex.we combined her work on the floor with mine floating above.other art was presented in a more usual way on walls in the oosterkerk amsterdam.julia barnes/facetten van de kunst

a portrait as in pictures on a dresser at my grandma’s

drawing and photo,part of dressoir next to three works by marc deconinck

installation of two photos,hidings

tonnis,almost ninety,posing

mold.drawing on carpet,cut out

for him

embroidered drawing for bittersweet manic nature (a project to create openness around bipolair disorder) by michael van der meide,fashion designer.the drawing expresses mania

inside out

verkeerde kant/wrong side.when one wears the jeans onlookers see the backside of the embroidery,in dutch de verkeerde kant (the wrong side) being of the wrong side is used to degrade queers.the fantasy male dominance cherishes

embroidered drawing green squares on grey

on nietzsche,also sprach zarathustra.alle lust will ewigkeit,will tiefe tiefe ewigkeit.

this boy was in the corridor,on the wall of my primary school

outside of reworked shirt

front of the inner coat

a coat in front embroidered with dick picks that were send unasked in social media.innocent ken keeping up the cloth on which an extensive embroidered drawing of guys mixing with each other.parallel worlds. after the installation was presented twice in an exhibition i decided to cut out this drawing and use it as an independent work

michelangelo to tomassio.jacket remade inside out

diaries-torn pages:from john's gospel,in the beginning was the word etc.

translated from dutch,let him kiss me with the kisses of his lips

male suit

embroidered drawing on jacket,composed of three jackets.background,drawing by hans bossmann

vest and pants as collar or queue de paris

cutout of a quote-david wojnarowicz and personal data

cutout of a quote-walt whitman

cutout quote-michelangelo

homo sapiens sapiens homo

cutout in den beginne was het woord-johannes evangelie.start of johns gospel

a glimpse,poem by walt whitman.

shakespeare sonnet on loving him.one of three sweaters

shakespeare,part of a sonnet of loving him

embroidery and text for a book with drawings by chiel braat on the main shopping street of my home town.embroidery:as in many towns shopping street facades are boring.look up,as the upper parts are mostly original.textc;ounting the length of the tree with footsteps.also i counted the use of spaces and number of (few) trees.

latin text,one can kill nature,she will always return.cut out on fragment of a male jacket

twice embroidered poem in the handwriting of the poet.words by george moormann.for his installation and performance stof zijt gij (dust art thou)

stamps-shakespeare

scratch drawing on photo

diplomas,cut out gods of the olympus

embroidered drawings,cut out

detail,ixion after goltzius.

rêve de reve.to gerard reve,cut out of a painting attached to a jacket

diary drawing-torn pages:hunt                                         

cut out

drawings with spontaneous words-from the start of this century

circling around a gift from mattias duyves,satin sports shorts of gert hekma

work in progress.quote-david wojnarowicz