It was at home at the bar at my parents' house that I put the last dashes on the paper with my crown pen. The first lines I drew in my attic room and the building of a tree shape with dashes worked almost meditatively. The pen drawing represents a magical tree and I had made it on commission as a student of the Graphic School Eindhoven. The commission was also a drawing competition that the firm Hoechst had organized in 1983 for the students of the Graphic Education. The tree represents a gateway that symbolizes time. How a new branch emerges from a small tree and grows into a flourishing tree full of new branches.
“Everything starts somewhere, where nothing can arise in something . Just like a white sheet of paper offers you all the peace and space to create your ideas and imagination. Just like an illustration telling you a story that everyone can understand, whatever language you speak ... ”
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