sculptural relief in D U T C H tradition
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se7en

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Simplicity called 'se7en'. An almost black artwork with a shiny structure. Towards the edge a plain chalky surface. The relief is build up from 7 x 7 segments with 7 millimeter thick walls.

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 16-May-2020 | status: not available, on a wall in France 

Stacktrace

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Number four in a serie of four. Walls of stacked blocks with a minimum of one block and a maximum of four blocks. The algorithm used is Aldous-Broder.

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 80 cm / 31,5 inch | width: 80 cm / 31,5 inch | depth: 4 cm / 1,6 inch | finished: 15-August-2021 | status: reserved 

Focus Fifty Five

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Number three in a serie of four. This work is built from segments for which the 'segment algorithm' is used to design a maze.

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 80 cm / 31,5 inch | width: 80 cm / 31,5 inch | depth: 4 cm / 1,6 inch | finished: 10-July-2021 | status: reserved 

Bedroom Art

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Number two in a serie of four. For the structure, the braid algorithm is used.

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 80 cm / 31,5 inch | width: 80 cm / 31,5 inch | depth: 4 cm / 1,6 inch | finished: 24-May-2021 | status: reserved 

Navigating for Noobs

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Number one in a serie of four. It's not obvious when looking at this maze, but it is unicursal, therefore it's a labyrinth.


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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 80 cm / 31,5 inch | width: 80 cm / 31,5 inch | depth: 4 cm / 1,6 inch | finished: 27-April-2021 | status: reserved 

Three Chills

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For this artwork, I started with a rough wooden board and built a relief with three focus points. This makes this different from a lot of my other works where I use just one focus point.
The roughness of the board is kept till the end result in the relief and in the paint.

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material: styrofoam | base: wooden board | height: 61 cm / 24 inch | width: 41 cm / 16,1 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 13-March-2021 | status: not available, on a wall in France 

Black Keys

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This artwork is based on a pattern generated on a webapp called 'Hurna explorer'. From this pattern I like the endings that consistently have two positions, which made me think of piano keys.


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material: styrofoam | base: wooden board | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 12-February-2021 | status: not available, on a wall in France 

Obey the Algorithm

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'Obey the Algorithm' contains a rather shallow structure built up from thin strokes. The strokes are all two millimeter too short to fit the maze design. This resulted in a consequent inconvenience.

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 40 cm / 15,7 inch | depth: 2 cm / 0,8 inch | finished: 21-January-2021 | status: not available, on a wall in Italy 

Volcano

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This artwork has a complex structure based on the 'braid' algorithm for generating mazes. The blocks are cut from a melted piece of styrodur.

Base colour is plain red. Lighter orange nuances are added in the middle. The edges are finished with mat varnish.


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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 90 cm / 35,4 inch | width: 90 cm / 35,4 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 30-December-2020 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Prim by Prim

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A new relief structure that resulted from applying two algorithms. For maze design, Prim's algorithm is followed. When glueing the overlaying styrodur strips, I applied an uncompromised order from the middle to the edges. This lead to an exciting structure as you can see on the photo's.

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 40 cm / 15,7 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 17-November-2020 | status: not available, on a wall in France 

Verticality

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This time I wanted to try a new type of base board with 'double' edges. To get those edges, I glued two thin wooden boards together.

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 40 cm / 15,7 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 17-October-2020 | status: not available, on a wall in France 

541 decisions

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Each block is a unique, individual part of each labyrinthz artwork. I decided to emphasize this to count them and use the number of blocks in the title. The relief is based on the Kruskal algorithm, the heights and the colornuances of the blocks are varying rhythmically.

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 27-September-2020 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

9 versus 5

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This time I used the relief design of an artwork was creating in 2016. The oak wood of the artwork started to warp, so I did not finish it then. Now, the blocks are glued on okoumé ply wood, which is unlikely to warp.

The structure has a 5 mm height on the 'inside' and a 9 mm height around the 5 mm blocks. This results in a nice transition between 9 and 5.


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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 12-September-2020 | status: not available, on a wall in Italy 

Formicary

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This artwork is based on a 'formicary', which I found at the Koningshof parc, Overveen, Netherlands.
It took a while to complete this complex millimetrized maze, but now it's finished. You are probably wondering now: Formicary? What's that? Use Google

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 18-August-2020 | status: not available, on a wall in France 

Blockchain 1917

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This is 'Blockchain 1917'! The relief structure is based on the 'nested fractal' algorithm. This resulted in a chain of 8 x 3 = 24 connected blocks. The color scheme is inspired by art movement 'De Stijl'.

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 120 cm / 47,2 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 17-July-2020 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Behind bars

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A corona quarantine may not be compared to living in a prison, but it surely inspired me to create 'Behind bars'. Vertical bars, an easy way in and a complicated way out.

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 01-June-2020 | status: not available, on a wall in Italy 

Break-even

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This artwork is going back to the white tradition. It contains interesting subtle brushstrokes white nuances. Unfortunately this is very hard to see in these photo's. This is the difference in seeing an artwork on a computerscreen and seeing it for reaal! I hope you enjoy it anyway. . . It's called Break-even.

The maze structure is created from blocks that all have even sizes (2, 4, 6, etc cm). It follows the 'perfect' algorithm for generating mazes.


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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 24-April-2020 | status: not available, on a wall in Belgium 

Kruskalicious

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This artwork looks Kruskalicious! It is a complex maze, following Kruskal's algorithm for generating mazes.

Obviously, I called it 'Kruskalicious'. Maybe you can solve this giant puzzle?

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 110 cm / 43,3 inch | width: 110 cm / 43,3 inch | depth: 5 cm / 2 inch | finished: 10-April-2020 | status: not available, on a wall in The United Kingdom 

Curvatures

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Thin eight millimeter strips are stacked where they meet. In the middle of the board, the strips are a bit thicker than on the sides. These strips are glued with weights on them, which caused them to bend. I called it 'Curvatures'.

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 90 cm / 35,4 inch | width: 90 cm / 35,4 inch | depth: 4 cm / 1,6 inch | finished: 14-March-2020 | status: not available, on a wall in Luxembourg 

Z below Zero

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People tend to say 'Art doesn't have to match the couch'. I Totally agree, but this time, I am afraid I made the ultimate couchmatcher. Guilty, but I like it. It is called 'Z below Zero'.

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 90 cm / 35,4 inch | width: 90 cm / 35,4 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 08-February-2020 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Working 3 to 5

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Working 3 to 5! Now, the thickness of the walls had to vary from three to five millimeter. This turned the sculpture into a puzzle where still I wanted to connect the walls smoothly.

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 14-December-2019 | status: not available, on a wall in France 

Sloppy Consequent

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Seemingly careless connected blocks and cracks in the paint. If this sloppyness is visible in a proportional and balanced way, the artwork as a whole can still look surprisingly good

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 09-November-2019 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

ZigZag

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A maze with a path that goes right-left-right-left etc. This time I thought it would nice to reveil the solution in it.


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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 2 cm / 0,8 inch | finished: 12-October-2019 | status: not available, on a wall in Suisse 

Bridges 'n' Edges

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This is a relief with an inverted maze, built from small pieces of hardfoam (see my previous post). It took a while to finish, multiple heathwaves and illness took weeks of delay.

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 120 cm / 47,2 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 08-September-2019 | status: not available, on a wall in Italy 

One way and no other

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This work is called 'One way and no other'. It's a unicursal maze, technically, a labyrinth because there is only one way to walk through it. I painted this with soft silky lime nuances which is unfortunately hard to capture exactly the right way on the photo's. Anyway, just like all art you gotta see it for real, not just on a screen!

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 90 cm / 35,4 inch | width: 90 cm / 35,4 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 14-July-2019 | status: not available, on a wall in Portugal 

The Algorhythm

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This time I applied the algorithm 'binary tree' for generating mazes. This resulted in a maze that starts in one corner and flows out to the other corners. After a 45 degree rotation, the maze starts at the bottom and grows rhythmic to the top (like a tree!). I named this artwork 'The Algorhythm'.

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 90 cm / 35,4 inch | width: 90 cm / 35,4 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 10-June-2019 | status: AVAILABLE 

Algorithms colliding

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This time an experiment with a maze on a round board. The rough maze structure is cut from one melted/burned piece of hardfoam. Finally, loads of chalkpaint is dropped on the structure, which results in nice cracks after drying in the sun!

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material: hardfoam | base: round wooden board | height: 70 cm / 27,6 inch | width: 70 cm / 27,6 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 11-May-2019 | status: not available 

The Finest Algorithm

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This time an experiment with a maze on a round board. The rough maze structure is cut from one melted/burned piece of hardfoam. Finally, loads of chalkpaint is dropped on the structure, which results in nice cracks after drying in the sun!

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 2 cm / 0,8 inch | finished: 14-April-2019 | status: not available, on a wall in Italy 

Ant Trap

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For 'Ant trap', I used a new tool to create structure in the hardfoam: A hot air blower!

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 90 cm / 35,4 inch | width: 90 cm / 35,4 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 23-March-2019 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Tegami Zu

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Tegami Zu! As a smart Instagram addict you can probably easily guess what this artwork is about. Just watch the photo's!

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 90 cm / 35,4 inch | width: 90 cm / 35,4 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 19-January-2019 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Ochre loops

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This artwork is called 'Ochre loops'. Not as spaghetti-like as planned, but still an exciting chaotic structure. Looking closely, you can see all the color nuances, cracks and brush strokes.

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden board | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 2 cm / 0,8 inch | finished: 11-December-2018 | status: not available, on a wall in Spain 

Escape room

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Some more shots of the artwork I just finished. (See my previous post for info about it.) These photo's were taken in the dark. I added some little white blocks to show the escape route.

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 102 cm / 40,2 inch | width: 102 cm / 40,2 inch | depth: 4 cm / 1,6 inch | finished: 25-October-2018 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Living O

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 100 cm / 39,4 inch | width: 100 cm / 39,4 inch | depth: 4 cm / 1,6 inch | finished: 08-September-2018 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Sunblocks

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 100 cm / 39,4 inch | width: 100 cm / 39,4 inch | depth: 4 cm / 1,6 inch | finished: 17-July-2018 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Blockchain

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 102 cm / 40,2 inch | width: 102 cm / 40,2 inch | depth: 4 cm / 1,6 inch | finished: 01-June-2018 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Searching in a circle

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 80 cm / 31,5 inch | width: 80 cm / 31,5 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 11-April-2018 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Backlight Blocks

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See this artwork in backlight and discover lots of depths and shades

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 80 cm / 31,5 inch | width: 80 cm / 31,5 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 03-March-2018 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Vintage Kruskal

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 80 cm / 31,5 inch | width: 80 cm / 31,5 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 28-January-2018 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Restless Red

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 80 cm / 31,5 inch | width: 80 cm / 31,5 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 26-December-2017 | status: not available, on a wall in Suisse 

Hematite Hill

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material: styrofoam | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 4 cm / 1,6 inch | finished: 18-November-2017 | status: not available, on a wall in Spain 

Barry's White

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The colors I used? White, white, white and white. Mat, gloss, titan and zinc combined. It's hard to capture the nuances on a few photos, you got to see this for real.


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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 20-October-2017 | status: not available, on a wall in Italy 

Binary Burgundy

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 16-September-2017 | status: not available, on a wall in The United States 

Sunny Wilson

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My most sunny artwork so far!

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 25-August-2017 | status: not available, on a wall in France 

Carmine crossings

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 17-July-2017 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Blistering braid

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 25-June-2017 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Dark drama

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 22-April-2017 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Argue with blue

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 19-April-2017 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Unicursal snow

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Unicursal maze finished on a snowy day in 2017.


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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 12-February-2017 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Crusty kruskal

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Enjoy complexity and order on a wooden frame. Demurely colored southbay blue and charcoal black.


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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 18-December-2016 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Lost in the light

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Find your way through a perfect white maze

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 16-November-2016 | status: not available, on a wall in The United States 

Heavy blocks from a Chinese coalmine

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225 heavy blocks tightly connected with extreme precision

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 01-November-2016 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Gravely squares in a square

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441 empty squares in a coal pit


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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 15-October-2016 | status: not available, on a wall in China 

Checkpoint of modernity

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441 empty squares in a sparkling white grid


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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 02-September-2016 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Varnish adventure

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Blue maze on black board

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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 27-July-2016 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Inversion of the tangled spider

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Lots of wooden lines, two depth levels, one structure


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material: wood | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 17-April-2016 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Tangled spider

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Lots of wooden lines, two depth levels, one structure.


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material: wood | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 27-March-2016 | status: not available, on a wall in The United States 

Mosaic labyrinth in wood

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Part of a labyrinth in wooden profiles. Painted with mat alternately radiant white paint.

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material: wood | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3 cm / 1,2 inch | finished: 27-February-2016 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 

Sunken angles

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Big round concave of small roughly cut blocks of different heights.


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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 09-May-2015 | status: not available, on a wall in Spain 

Crude convex

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Big round convex of small roughly cut blocks of different heights.


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material: hardfoam | base: wooden frame | height: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | width: 60 cm / 23,6 inch | depth: 3,5 cm / 1,4 inch | finished: 09-May-2015 | status: not available, on a wall in The Netherlands 
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