Practice
The day
Four bells. Four lines. The thirteen, given on the day the foundation is kept. The hours are the life.
What the hours are for
The hours, the paintings, and BloeiWens.nl.
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.
To set the hours that remain toward a life a later hand can hold.
Survival may take the hour, when the house would fail without the work. A finer wage may not. The child meets the person who came through the door, not the intention that stayed at the building. The book, the paintings, and BloeiWens.nl are what the hours build once the house can stand. They do not keep the day for you.
Returning
Things I keep returning to
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.
The thirteen are given one at a time, on the day the foundation is kept. A list collected in an evening is the chair, now able to describe itself.
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.
I am not listed on my own platform. The product is about the people it serves.
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.
The 2019 paintings are from the years when making was part of the day. They remain available by inquiry.
Work
What this looks like in practice
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.
One hour. The law of that hour for a people. One life, in which the practice is forged. The week the practice is lived: the bells, the page, and the thirteen.
WrittenStudio 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.