ALS HET CENTRUM DE OMTREK IS, Galerie Ramakers The Hague, 2021. Foreground: ‘Hermes [Caduceus]’ – 2020.

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‘Hermes [Caduceus]’ – 2020, detail. felt, aluminium, 16 x 67 x 152,5 cm.

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Foreground: ‘La Pierre de Rosetta [Ouroboros]’ – 2019-2020. steel, wood. 161 cm high.

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‘Chymische Hochzeit’ [Nigredo-Purgatio-Destillatio-Regeneratio] – 2020. 4 parts. (privat coll. Sneek)

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‘For Your Eyes Only’ [Sohum (3)] – 2020. convex and concave mirror glass, inox. 19,5 x 40 x 9 cm. (privat coll. The Hague)

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On wall from l.t.r: ‘The Blind Leading The Blind’ [#2, #3, #1] – 2021. ‘Tautology [SUN]’ – 2019. ‘One’ – 2017. ‘Apperception’ – 2021.

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‘Apperception’ – 2021. concave mirror glass, aluminium. 19 x 19 x 27½ cm.

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‘Apperception’ – 2021. concave mirror glass, aluminium. 19 x 19 x 27½ cm.

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Gallerie view

APPERCEPTION

Het Franse woord ‘apperception’ betekent ‘bewuste waarneming’. Zien, niet slechts met de ogen, maar vanuit de geest, of liever gezegd, vanuit Bewustzijn zelf. Ik heb daar al eerder over geschreven (Neti Neti, 2019).

Er is in ieder van ons iets ‘ongeschapens’, een vermogen tot kennen, opmerken, waarnemen of getuige-zijn. Van een gedachte, gevoel of wat dan ook. Dat vermogen zit, in de woorden van vergelijkende godsdienstwetenschapper C.B. Zuijderhoudt, “als een kat voor een muizengaatje stil te wachten op wat zich gaat voordoen, en het ‘in besef’ te pakken als het opduikt”.

Dat vermogen tot beleven, dat bewustzijn heeft geen afmetingen, kleur of gevoel. Het heeft ook geen locatie (maar is non-lokaal). “Het bijzondere van bewustzijn is, dat daar niet opnieuw een mechanisme achter zit dat op zijn beurt het bewustzijn ‘waarneemt’ en zich daarvan bewust is”. Het bewustzijn zelf ís het zien, leven, zijn. Begin- en eindstation van alle waarneming. 

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‘Hermes [Caduceus]’ – 2020, detail. felt, aluminium, 16 x 67 x 152,5 cm. Background: ‘Tautology [SUN]’ – 2019. ‘One’ – 2017. Apperception’ – 2021.

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‘Tautology [SUN]’ – 2019. print on plexi, dibond 6mm, with cut-out circle . 49,8 x 64,8 x 5,5 cm.

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Left: ‘Cutting The Matrix’ – 2008-2016. pigment print on hahnemühle, ink, frame. 52,5 x 41 x 3 cm. Right: ‘Apperception’ – 2021. concave mirror glass, aluminium. 19 x 19 x 27½ cm.

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Foreground: ‘Chreode’- 2019. white marble, marbles, crystal ball 50 mm. 67 x 27 x 23,5 cm & ‘Compas [Nocturne]’ – 2020. rubber (tire), felt (bowler hat), glass (tubes 4mm), white-blue marble. Sizes: 23 h x 91,5 x 41 cm.

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‘Compas [Nocturne]’ – 2020. rubber (tire), felt (bowler hat), glass (tubes 4mm), white-blue marble. Sizes: 23 h x 91,5 x 41 cm.

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De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium – 2019-2020

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Foreground: ‘Secret Space’ – 2019-2020. detail. wood, steel, messing, star maps, glass & lead marbles. 129 x 92 x 50 cm. Background: ‘Chreode’- 2019. white marble, marbles, crystal ball 50 mm. 67 x 27 x 23,5 cm.

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‘Secret Space’ – 2019-2020. detail.

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‘Secret Space’ – 2019-2020. wood, steel, messing, star maps, marble, lead marbles. 129 x 92 x 50 cm.

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Foreground: Secret Space [Huygens] – 2019-2020. wood, steel, messing, star maps, marble, lead marbles. 129 x 92½ x 50 cm. Centre: Pandora – 2021. rubber, plexi glass, resin, pigments. 27½ x 35 x 30½ cm. Background: For Your Eyes Only [Sohum-3] – 2020.

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Planetarium [De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium]’ – 2019. iron, cast iron, inox, aluminium, marbles. 83 x 54 x 38 cm.

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‘Pandora’ – 2021. rubber, plexi glass, resin, pigments. 27½ x 35 x 30½ cm.

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De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium – Galerie Ramakers The Hague, 2021.

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There’s a lot going on in the universe. Every morning when I wake up, the earth has just finished a complete turn around it’s axe at a speed of 1670 km per hour. It doesn’t even make me stagger for a second. Furthermore, the planet continues to follow it’s elliptical orbit around the sun at 107.200 km per hour. The complete solar system moves around the galactic centre at about 800.000 km per hour; a  tour that takes an estimated 225 million years. Meanwhile man has civilised itself and started exploring the nearest depths of the universe. At this very moment in history, commercial space flight has become a mandatory fact with Elon Musk’s Falcon rocket (SpaceX) followed by Jef Bezos (Blue Origin), without them making even the slightest beginning in exploring their own inner cosmic space. Tally ho!

Every morning, my heart has been beating all night long, gently transporting the necessary oxygen to some 60 trillion body cells. The melatonin created during the night in my pineal gland at the centre of the brain renovated half a million body cells. Every second 2½ million new red blood cells emerge in my veins. We’re all walking miracles. Most times sleeping while standing straight on our feet.

‘It is yourselves that penetrates the universe and the universe is in you.

Truly, you are pure consciousness by nature,

Don’t have such small faith…’

Astravakra Gita 16

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‘It Is Yourselves You See And What You Are’ – 2021. detail. aluminium, paper, ink, oil, resin, concave mirror, chromed steel and inox. 120 x 120 x 12 cm. (privat coll. Wassenaar)

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As many star-filled galaxies pepper the bubble of our space-time horizon as there are grains of sand on a beach. Our bodies are made of stardust. Stardust itself is made from whirlpools of light: it’s spirals everywhere. The spiral is in fact the most fundamental structure in the entire universe. Even our bodily muscles and bones are corkscrew-formed in order to create greater strength.

Hermes Trismegistos stated « as above, so below », and also « as within, so without ». (The Emerald Tablets). We all breathe some 18 times per minute. Which makes 1080 breaths per hour, and 2160 in- and out-breaths every 2 hours. This corresponds with the 2160-years cycle for the earth to pass through each of the 12 signs of the zodiak.

In one day we breath 1080 x 24 = 25.920 times. A number that corresponds exactly with one turn of the earth through the entire zodiak, which is also known as a Great Year, which takes 12 x 2160 = 25.920 years.  

Everything is intemately and ultemately connected. We breath literally in synchronicity with the cosmos. It is yourselves you see and what you are.

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