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Petticoats

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I consider woman as a beautiful romantic animal, that may be adorned with furs and feathers, pearls and diamonds, ores and silks. The lynx shall cast its skin at her feet to make her a tippet; the peacock, parrot, and swan, shall pay contributions to her muff; the sea shall be searched for shells, and the rocks for gems; and every part of nature furnish out its share towards the embellishment of a creature that is the most consummate work of it. All this I shall indulge them in; but as for the petticoat I have been speaking of, I neither can, nor will allow it.

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Source: To complete the stiffening of their under petticoats from FreeFictionBooks.org

For old times sake

Do you know those times when you think back remembering the past and catch yourself with a huge grin spreading accross your face? For me that is usually about re-discovering old games..or toys for that matter...or candy...

One of those lovely little old games took me back all the way to 1994..it's about the game "Legend of Illusion" brought out for The F*&^%$# SEGA Game Gear(As I recall I believe was one of the first hand held consoles) For those of you who do not know(or do not care) this is a SEGA Game gear:


Ah, the sega, with a plug and wire that were always broken so that if you as much as flinched the power would go off, resulting into you having to start all over again(without the plug it took 6 batteries to power the damn thing, and at that time batteries only came in 4-packs and were non-rechargeable)

Since I have an emulator and ran across the game again(plus the fact that I never actually finished the game due to the fact that I was 4 back then) I decided to finally finish it. This took me a whopping hour....yes, an hour. Which could have probably been faster. But even as I look back and remember that not even the first Nintendo games were in color I must say that SEGA(for that time) did a pretty awesome job on their graphic department. Since there is lots of emulators out there, I would say: Pick one and try out some of the undiscovered jewels SEGA created so long ago and that so many people used to enjoy. It's like opening a box of candy you last ate when you were five, remembering in an instant what it was you loved about it, I assure you it will bring a smile to your face :)

Thrown in the bargain: some screenshots of the game Legend of Illusion, which is about a laundry boy(mickey mouse)that has to save a fairytale country from the dark powers of an evil sorcerer king.





appendix: You can even still buy the sega with games for around €70,- XD

A touch of avant garde truth

Floating away in helpless anticipation.
8-bit clouds mingling in levels of lava
a tv-screen framed by a whiskeybottle
and 2 cans of processed energy
a bottle filled with coded adrenaline
A spur of a moment in which clouds of smoke
drift to the ceiling
Transcending everything that makes up my thoughts
even if just for a moment
nothing has to make sense





A painting on the theme of Christian disgrace through the ages
as well as their heritage of lies...

Ascending over hate and lies...

Thank you

As the year draws to a close(do I detect some sentimentalism?) I wanted to update some work that I certainly don't want to keep from you, also since I recently finished my yearly portfolio summary, but first I would like to write something.

Lots of things happened the past two years. But I can positively say that I look back with a smile, something that didn't happen...any time actually, at school. I never could have imagined making so many friends, I could never imagine that it could actually be fun at school, just being at school. Though of course I hope that I haven't seen the last of all of the wonderful people I met, and I welcome the time I can see their new work and think be of a merry time I knew them at school and see how they developed themselves into professional artists, each in their own way, on their own account. And I am sure every single one of them is well capable of accounting for themselves now and in the future..So..whatever may come on your path, I wish all of you guys the best of luck, and I hope you will read this someday with the same smile I hold for all of you.

Eva

mona lisa smile

Maria, queen of all queens, mother to all

the butterfly

For the last few weeks I studied the yuzen technique used in Japan to create kimono designs on silk(or chirimen) The fabric I used was chinese silk(Japanese silk is hard to acquire) It took me about 3 weeks to complete, this is by far one of the most intensive projects I worked on, and this is just a fraction of a complete kimono(lets say 1/20th part) It would be absolutely amazing to make one though.

Patterns used on kimono are picked by season, age and marital status as well as general status. Almost every flower and animal(and so on) has it's own meaning.
With this design I wanted to capture the fragility of youth(especially in japan) with the moon in the middle shining on a bright surface of clear water. purple branches of a weeping willow touch the surface. Above the surface a sky is hovering, bringing clouds that symbolize the coming adulthood. But for the meanwhile there seems to be nothing that can bring it to a stop. The youth is symbolized with peony flowers, lily's and the carefree butterfly that lazily floats near the flowers.