Aug 8, 2008 | Ceramics, News, Photography
GLOBAL LOCAL Ellen Spijkstra Ceramics and photography – 2008 This publication by Uitgeverij d’jonge Hond is about the work of Ellen Spijkstra. The book consists of 132 pages with 100 photographs and written contributions in Dutch, English and Spanish by...
Jan 1, 2008 | Photography
Series of Six 2007-2008 When I bought my first digital camera, I started practicing in my own garden. I photographed the agaves, cactus, bougainvillea, palm leaves and the coral stones I had collected and that were laying around my studio. Only the salt pans were...
Jan 1, 2005 | Photography
Silenzio 2005 This series of 23 photographs is inspired by the musician Zucchero, who says in his album Miserere (1992): “A volte, la migliore musica è silenzio…diciamo!” (Sometimes the best music is silence…I say!) In contrast with the bright, colorful series of the...
Jan 1, 2004 | Photography
Curaçao Harbor Tour 1998-2003 The first photograph of this series is made in 1998, when I happened to be on the right spot at the right time. Because of that photograph (‘Watercolors’ or ‘no.1’), which won an award in the exhibition Arte ’99, I was asked to make...
Jan 1, 2003 | Photography
Resusitá 2003 For the group exhibition in the Rif Fort, named ‘Resusitá’, I made a series of photos of the hairdo of young boys. When I came to live on the island Curaçao, in 1980, many mothers were saying to their children that curly hair was bad hair and...
Feb 25, 2002 | Photography
With a little help from nature 1998-2002 You can see my love for material in the photographs I made from walls of old houses. Nature in the tropics is harsh and changes neatly painted walls quickly into beautiful abstract paintings, often than revealing their...
