{"id":19920,"date":"2025-03-16T23:22:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T23:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?p=19920"},"modified":"2025-03-16T23:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T23:22:40","slug":"blasts-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?p=19920","title":{"rendered":"Blasts from the past…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

March 16, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am still processing the past 3 months in my country of origin, the Netherlands. I am brimming with new ideas and have several new works waiting for me to get started. But before I do, I want to show you 3 originals I found while cleaning my mom’s house.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are all small and come from the time I worked with black and white ink, rather than with paint and colours. The first one is a portrait of who I think was Yehudi Menuhin. He was a brilliant violinist – I studied the violin for 20 years and played in some orchestras when I was young and he was one of my idols. I THINK it is him, but I never wrote down who this was based on…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The signature tells me I created this portrait at the age of 16…<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Then there is this one. I remember that it was based off some esoteric question: if you were an animal, what are you now, what are you dreaming of being and how would you like to come back. My answers, clearly, were that I was a Lioness, I wished to be a bird so I could fly and would want to come back as an eagle or some sort of bird of prey. Meditate on that! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I drew this at age 18… It was an envelope sized small work.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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And the last small work was part of a series of what I called ‘drop’ figures. I drew people and every part of their body was in the shape of a drop. It was just a fun thing to do, nothing deep fuelling it. I remember them to be quite popular and I gave most of them away. But this little original survived, as it was stored in an art book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This was signed in ’82, at age 22. I continued drawing with black ink for quite some time, but the later works were a lot bigger. One thing they have in common with what I do today: there are usually people in my work and almost always at least one eye…<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 16, 2025 I am still processing the past 3 months in my country of origin, the Netherlands. I am brimming with new ideas and have several new works waiting for me to get started. But before I do, I want to show you 3 originals I found while cleaning my mom’s house. They are all small and\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2671],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists-blog"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Nicky","author_link":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Artist's Blog<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Artist's Blog<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 1 year ago","modified":"Updated 1 year ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on ","modified":"Updated on "},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on ","modified":"Updated on "},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19926,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19920\/revisions\/19926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}