“On a cosmological scale, a grand hand in glove equilibrium exists between the ever agitated motion on the quantum level and the surrounding zero-point energy field. One consequence of this is that we are literally, physically ‘in touch’ with the rest of the cosmos that we share with remote parts of the universe fluctuating zero-points of even cosmological dimensions.”

[Harold Puthoff]

“Er bestaat op kosmologische schaal een volmaakt evenwicht  tussen de eeuwig trillende beweging van materie op kwantumnivo en het omringende nulpuntenergieveld. Een van de consequenties daarvan is dat we letterlijk – dus fysisch –  in contact staan met de kosmos, aangezien wij met de ver van ons verwijderde delen  van de kosmos fluctuerende nulpuntenergievelden van, nota bene kosmische proporties, delen.”

[Harold Puthoff]

“To a certain degree all matter is conscious and no awareness immaterial. There is no categorical separation between spirit and matter.”

[Alfred North Whitehead]

“Tot op zekere hoogte is alle materie bewust en is geen enkel bewustzijn absoluut immaterieel. Er bestaat geen categorische scheiding tussen geest en stof.”

[Alfred North Whitehead]

‘Stars and Fingerprints’ – 1986, detail. black & white photo.

 

 

 

 

‘Stars and Fingerprints’ – 1986.                                                                                                  ‘STS 103 [Shuttle Mission]’ – 2015. oil and acrylic on canvas.

 

 

‘De hemel is’ – 1999, drawing.

 

‘Cygnus C 10 04’ – 2004. digital print on dibond, perspex, 80 x 80 cm.

 

Since early childhood the cosmos has drawn my special attention. My first conscious memories date from the age of 4 when my father ‘explained’ to me the stars and milky way – not by words, but by taking me directly outside on a cold winter night. It literally blew my mind, although he himself has probably never noticed. Later, it made me understand better the meaning of things like the ‘Corpus Christi’ (‘The entire cosmos is thou body’), and now it hopefully provides me with enough reasons to dedicate a special menu item to this very preoccupation.

 

‘La tombe ci-gît l’espace’ – 1990. steel frame with astronomical picture (circumpolar rotation). Frame 100 x 40 x 40 cm.

 

 

‘Regarder toutes les choses comme un rêve, un fantôme, une goutte de rosée, ou un éclair’ – 1994. black and white photo.

 

 

‘Eye For A Tree’ – 2016. Convex mirror ∅ 75cm.

 

 

 

(1977)

 

“Without the physical body one would be greater than the universe.”[Wunengzi, 9th century]

“I am whole up to the farthest star.”[Erik van Ruysbeek]

” If the heart is wide enough it can embrace the whole universe.”[Nizami]

“If the Milky Way were not within me, how should I have seen it or known it?”[Kahlil Gibran]

“The universe is within, all that one needs to do is make the effort to discover it,”[Inayat Khan]

“As regards shape you are the micro cosmos, in reality the macro cosmos.”[Rumi, 13th century]

“Within the farthest and unlimited boundaries, a mortal.”[Hans Adreus]

– Never am I here at present only as this encapsulated body …

 

‘Zonder stoflichaam zou je nog weidser dan het universum zijn’. [Wunengzi, 9^e eeuw]

‘Ik ben geheel tot in de verste ster’. [Erik van Ruysbeek]

‘Indien het hart ruim genoeg is, kan het het ganse heelal bevatten’. [Nizami]

‘Indien de melkweg niet in mij was, hoe kon ik hem dan ooit zien en horen?’ [Kahlil Gibran]

‘Er bestaat niets in het heelal dat niet in de mens teruggevonden kan worden, indien hij slechts de moeite wil nemen het te ontdekken’. [Inayat Khan]

‘Qua vorm ben je de microkosmos, in werkelijkheid de macrokosmos’. [Rumi, 13^e eeuw]

‘De verste grenzen en onbegrensd hierin een mens’. [Hans Andreus]

– Never am I here at present only as this encapsulated body…

 

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