Higgs Boson part 1.

Mixed medium on canvas 60 cm x 60 cm

'If our ideas about the Higgs boson turn out to be correct, then everything we see is a kind of window dressing based on an underlying fabric of reality in which we shouldn't exist. The particles that make us up – which bind together to form protons, neutrons, nuclei and ultimately atoms – have mass. Without the Higgs, these particles would be massless, like photons.

We all know from our own experience that how heavy something feels depends on where it is located. For example, objects that are heavy on land appear lighter in water. Similarly, if you try to push a spoon through treacle it appears heavier than if you push it through air.

The standard model of particle physics implies that there is a "Higgs field" that permeates all space. This field interacts with particles, and does so with varying strengths. Particles that interact more strongly experience more resistance to their motion and appear heavier. Some particles, such as photons, do not interact with the field at all and remain massless.

In this way, the mass of everything is determined by the existence of the field, and mass is an accident of our circumstances because we exist in a universe in which such a background field happens to have arisen.' Lawrence Krauss

Sketchbook project 2012

My theme was 'In ten minutes, '
which is about how long it takes to put one collage in the book.
There is no order to this book.
It is random thoughts turned into images.
Made from things that are left over or tests I make for my canvases.
It is my way of keeping fresh.

Fijne Feestdagen

Sketchbook Project 2012

Second time around for the Sketchbook project.

I like the pressure of a deadline.
No time for artistic contemplation or insecurities.
Just doing it.

Parrot preserved.

Mixed medium on canvas 50 cm x 50 cm.

I found this parrot in a junk shop.
I like to think that it once lived and that the owner devastated
by it's demise preserved it on cardboard.
Dusty and abandoned I brought it back to life
new eyes, new feet, a new feather or two
a swing and a freshly painted
environment and Perry the parrot lives on.

Sacrifice

Sacrifice
Acrylic and paper on canvas 40cm x 30cm

Autumn.

Acrylic, ink and paper on canvas 50 cm x 50 cm.

Doodle Therapy.

'A doodle is an unfocused drawing made while
a person's attention is otherwise occupied.'

Ink, acrylic and paper on canvas 50 cm x 40 cm.

Retrospect

"In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow
of years and events that follow each other in logical sense,
but a life periodically dividing into entirely separate compartments."

Yuri

Yurei: Yu meaning faint or dim
rei meaning soul or spirit.

In Japanese mythology, Namazu is a giant catfish who lives in the mud
beneath the earth and causes earthquakes.
Namazu is guarded by the god Kashima, but when Kashima lets
his guard fall, Namazu thrashes about, causing violent
earthquakes.

After the great Edo earthquake of 1855, Namazu took on new meaning
as yonaoshi daimyojin, which loosely translates as a god of rectification,
and it became commonly held that the catfish was punishing human
greed.

We should not forget the thousands of innocent lives lost in this
modern disaster.

Canvas 50cm x 40cm: Acrylic and paper.

Toxic Avenger.

Canvas 40cm x 30cm mixed medium

Broken windows

Canvas 50cm x 40cm mix medium

Graffiti Queen

Lange Jufferstraat

The Queens

Oil, acrylic, enamel and paper on Canvas 40x 50.

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