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In 1952 I was born
in Haamstede, right under the lighthouse as the son of the lighthouse
keeper. That is where I spent my childhood and the dunes were my playground.
For my final exam at the Art academy in 1975 I did a project about the
influence of the wind. I stretched a piece of canvas between six poles of four meters long pine logs and observed the continuous
changing shapes. This installation was
placed on the beach of Haamstede. In the same year I obtained a studio in Burgh,
a village next to Haamstede. It was an old schoolbuilding, where I lived and worked until 1982, except one year working in Italy
and six months in the United States. For
these working periods I got a scholarship of the government. During this period
in my life I reached my personal subject: 'The Dynamics of the landscape and myself as a person in the middle of it'.
In 1982 I moved to Middelburg but after three years I returned to Haamstede
where I still work. Over the years I have deepened my interest in the forever changing landscape and my relationship
with it, I have used more and more factual information about the landscape and my
concrete presence within.
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