Light and shadow

Planetoïds

L'Invitation

1ste Price winning object of the international competition TGK 2009 Germany

L’Invitation is about the similarity of art to fairy tales. Like a fairy tale, art shows a different world. It gives a surprisingly and extraordinary viewpoint to reality. So here is The Wishing-Table; appearing delicious but only enjoyable by imagination. And this might as well be the main property of art.
Bon appétit!

Claviceps Tulasne

Purchased by Deutsches Museum Munich (GE) and by the Municipality of Tubbergen (NL)

Liliax

Caesalpinia Holodiscus

Bacon slicer

Vault

Killing Field

1 m² Purchased by the Ernsting Foundation Alter Hof Herding Glassmuseum Coesfeld-Lette

Forbidden Fruit

an installation of 144 fruits and 1 tree

For the first exhibitions the fruit will have to make use of existing fruit trees. But as a glass lover, you can play an active role in ensuring that the “Forbidden Fruit” get their own tree. You see, for every fruit sold a new fruit will be made, this so that the original number – one gross – remains intact. As soon as enough fruit is sold, a final tree will be fabricated with which the installation thereafter will go on tour.

The sale and fabrication of “Forbidden Fruit” will stop the moment the installation as a whole has been sold (the tree and 144 fruits). In this way you can be part of a worldwide community of “Forbidden Fruits” but also have a direct influence on the course of this project. By buying fruits you make it possible that a tree will be made, but if you buy the tree and 144 fruits you trigger the end of the project and ensure yourself of exclusivity!

'14 - '18

The Great War - La Grande Geurre -
De Grote Oorlog - Der Grosse Krieg

‘14 - ‘18 is an installation to commemorate the end of the First World War: 1,568 poppies, one for every day of the war, in a bomb crater of black soil with the soft chirping of meadow birds in the background to accentuate the silence.
Contradiction is a recurring theme in my work and this installation is no exception.

After the deafening violence of war comes silence.
After the blood of the soldiers come the poppies that color the fields red.
After the destruction and misery come peace and rebuilding.

After 100 years, the horrors of this war still bring tears to our eyes. Nature, on the other hand, seized the opportunity right away to roll out a beautiful carpet of flowers within a year. A huge contradiction.

Glass is another example of contradiction. It is formidably hard but also delicate and frivolous, dense but also translucent. It is these unexpected contradictions that make not only life but also glass fascinating to me.

For as long as I can remember, I “think” in glass. Partly because of this I know to use this dualism when forming my ideas. I find it fascinating to search for the limits of glass and, when needed, even push the envelope a bit.

Controversy is life!