This is about my black & white artworks:
I worked 44 years for the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute known as the KNMI. My profession was doing hourly surface weather observations (day and night), weather balloons (day and night as well) including those for measuring the ozone layer, and I was responsible for the instrument calibrations. I retired in 2024.
It is therefore not surprising that this background has sparked a love for science in me, in particular the moon, astronomy and quantum physics. As an artist this love resulted in the black & white artworks as seen below (preferably printed on aluminum so that the white patterns behave as reflections).
These artworks are inspired by images like these, specially those taken from space. Since I was a boy, I always imagined that being in a spaceship or on the Moon, I would be just like those blurry, sometimes overexposed and often distorted, yet beautiful images. For me as a child, that was what everything looked like in the hostile, mysterious darkness of space. As an artist, I use this view of (being in) space as a reflection on my existence.
1st series black&white
2nd series black&white
