What I work on
One hour, the law, one life, and the week
BloeiWens.nl
Free platform in the Netherlands
Studio
Paintings, open for inquiry
BloeiWens
BloeiWens.nl
Free, simple, respectful.
A free Dutch match platform for intended parents and known donors and co-parents. Clearer and more respectful than a cold clinic or an opaque marketplace. Not a clinic.
Built with first-hand understanding of the donor side — while I stay off my own platform so the product stays about the people it serves.
The book
The hours
Four books. Read them one after the other.
You are already tired, and you have not opened the day you call your own.
- The hour. One hour. If you grant it and remain as you are, you have chosen.
- The order. The law of that hour for a people. The governments now standing are cancelled by it, not improved.
- The life. One life. The practice is forged in it. Survival is the only thing allowed to take the hour.
- The week. The bells, the page, and the thirteen. It will cost you the comfort.
Why
Why the work looks like this
A religion is what the hours are spent on, and toward what purpose. The workweek is already one. The work is to spend the hours the other way: so a person thrives, and a household with him, and a people with him.
What I make now is the book, the paintings, and BloeiWens.nl. None of them is the day. The day is kept, or it is handed back.
The hours are the life. The book, the paintings, and BloeiWens.nl sit inside that day, or they do not count.
Practice
Things I keep returning to
The book, the paintings, and BloeiWens.nl. Around them, the day itself: the bells, the page, and the hours that still come home.
Keep the day
Four bells. Four lines before sleep. One foundation in the morning, the hunt while the sun is high, the evening left at the door, the night stopped so tomorrow can begin.
A household that can stand
BloeiWens.nl is a free Dutch platform for intended parents and known donors. A hard path toward a household should meet less coldness and less opacity.
What a later hand can hold
Paintings, the book, and the platform are things left in the world. A sentence about what you mean to leave is not that thing.
Also
Studio and collaboration
The studio and conversations that fit the work.
Studio paintings
Abstract works from 2019. A thing made that another person can meet. Available by inquiry. Commissions and exhibitions when the work fits.
Collaboration
Partnerships on work a household can actually use: the platform, the book, or a making that leaves something another hand can hold.
Studio
The studio chapter
The 2019 paintings are from the years when making was part of the day. A canvas another person can still meet.
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Orienting lines
- The hours are the life.
- First the person. Then the household. Then the people.
- The morning writes the day, or the day is written for you.
- A wage with your name on it is not the hours returned.
- Survival may take the hour. A finer wage may not.
- The child meets the person who came through the door.
- Set the bells. Write the four lines.
- Your own thriving, lived from day to day, becomes the life.