me modelling rings i made with bone, used matches, nylon and wax
photos by ? Nanette Diks

during my second year at the art school of Rotterdam (which is now the Willem de Kooning Academie)
in 1987-1988 i collaborated in the collective ‘PoGo’ with Annemiek Mion, Esther de Bruin and Nanette Diks on making experimental jewelry / wearable objects
partially as a critique of sculpture that i then (as critical art school student) perceived as a too static and too hierarchic…
we went to Scrap Rotterdam and bought many reject materials which we used in creating works, together with bones that i collected and wax
we photographed each other with them (mostly Nanette and Annemiek behind the camera) and we in the end even organised a show in collaboration with dancers, where we made the costumes and wearables and the whole art direction together
this collaboration was a blast and led to Annemiek and me applying to Rietveld Sieraad - we both got a epted but in the end i decidecd to stay in Rotterdam academy while she went to study there

testing various relations between my body and self-made objects in order to get away from traditional ‘sculpture’

me modelling a “neckpace” object of white nylon and wax
photo by Nanette Diks or Annemiek Mion

other wearable works: ‘boog’ 1988 / ‘wearing X-pand to hold you’ 2002 / ‘stonelips’ 2012 (photo) / ‘behind arms’ 2022 /

other art school works: ‘Moedervlek Vaderland’ 1989 (large watercolour drawing) / ‘soliciting’ 1990 (text on blouse) / ‘Frog and Princess’ 1990 (drawings) / ‘for noone’ 1990 /