In oktober 1973, in 2023 exact 50 jaar geleden, opende CC Westrand de deuren. Ter ere van het jubileum heeft de werkgroep Westrand 2023 me gevraagd om 3 illustraties te maken van de speelru…
Esse est percipi?
According to George Berkeley (1685-1753), material things do not exist until they have been observed.
Does a rainbow exist if there is no human, animal or camera to perceive it?
Does a place exist if it has never been archived or documented?
Probably... But I still err on the side of caution.
Atoomwijk
For the heritage days (Open Monumentendag 2022), I was asked to develop the graphic campaign for the "Atoomwijk" in Mol, Belgium. The "Atoomwijk" (Atomic village) is a residential area loca…
Beeldig Dilbeek
“De Schatkaart van Dilbeek” brengt een beeldig overzicht van wat leeft in Dilbeek en haar deelgemeenten. Van het bouwkundig en cultureel erfgoed, over de fauna & flora, tot het jeugd- e…
The unmemorable place
Het idee voor ‘The unmemorable place’ vindt zijn oorsprong in de tentoonstelling ‘Recollecting Landscapes‘ (S.M.A.K.- Ugent) en het werk van de Belgische Magnum-fotograaf John Vink (°1948).…
Eylenbosch
Brasserie Eylenbosch was founded in 1894 in Schepdaal (Dilbeek) by Emile Eylenbosch, who was also the town mayor. It has been a brewery site until 1989. Eylenbosch was known for his Gueuze …
CC Westrand
‘Westrand’ at Dilbeek, close to Brussels was designed by Alfons Hoppenbrouwers in 1973 as a concrete building, inspired by the brutalist philosophy and architecture of Le Corbusier. In the …
The Weverbergh House
'The Weverbergh house is one of the single-family houses Willy Van Der Meeren built after the World Fair of 1958, each different from the others, but all with equally original syntheses of …
Grimm
Myths and fairy tales are a phantasmagorical form of transmission of word but as well of images. This makes them very interesting study cases. Where is the origin of these grotesque tales? …
Caere, un giorno alla necropoli
The Etruscan Necropolis of the Banditaccia extends over a distance of about 10 km. The necropolis contains four hundred burial sites over a period spanning from the 8th to the 2nd centuries…
Nga !
'Nga! nyama inso baitungela mangongi na mangongi; weneke oke o lingongi mpinu okoki lene nyama njiki njiki, mpe baitungela mandaku na mandaku,ekabela lojata o libanda, nde punda wobele.' (f…
Laten we het maanlicht doden!
Uccidiamo il Chiaro di Luna!
Laten we het maanlicht doden!
Let's murder the moonlight!
Futurist manifesto by Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1909)
In december 1993, dur…
Danger de mort / Levensgevaar
My first series of photos that I made for my dissertation in interior architecture at the Sint-Lukas Institute was indebted to the typologies of Bernd und Hilla Becher. Starting from a part…