Transformation in Motion
Transformation in Motion offers a current overview of what’s happening right now: works in progress, studio experiments, recent exhibitions, and short news updates.
This page is updated monthly with a summary of what happened that month. Sometimes there’s a lot, sometimes only a little, depending on how much time I’ve been able to make.
Click the photos to open each transformation and discover the processes underneath.
There are also two social channels that move along with the work:
Mastodon: short updates and studio notes.
Pixelfed: images and detail shots from the studio.
June - July 2026
Deconstruction Thermal Promise
The temporary installation Thermal Promise was dismantled once again. Its individual components remain available for new connections and transformations.
Naming–Value Butterflies No.7 en No. 8
Two new Naming-Value Butterflies were captured from the drawings Overpressure and Buismans. The remaining fragments were permanently incorporated into the canvas OLIEDOM.
Traces of Transformation
A painter’s canvas that had collected traces of various activities on the studio floor was washed to serve as a backdrop for a recording.
St. Sebastian with Birds
Using small test moulds, I am testing different mixtures based on birdseed. This allows me to examine their weather resistance and how birds respond to the material.
A series of digital works from the project is also available as NFTs on objkt.
OLIEDOM
The older drawings Overpressure and Buismans have been permanently incorporated into the double-sided canvas. Black asphalt varnish makes the oil appear to seep across the work.
A 3D animation of a pumpjack will be added later, behaving in a way that is not entirely as expected.
Alien Care
Alien Care was given a renewed modular aluminium configuration. The page was updated with new photographs and text.
April - May 2026
Off the Grid
Virtual lines from the canvas extend into a grass field, where the lower zones enhance the illusion of depth.
Drawing in Motion
Old drawings dissolve into the drawing board. The signature transforms into a butterfly in Naming-Value Butterflies.
Naming-Value Butterflies No.10
A moment in the transformation process: from name to butterfly.
Alien Care
Further adaptation of the construction: designed for placement in foyers, allowing the artwork to continue growing with patches.
Naming-Value Butterflies No.8
The butterfly formation process, culminating in canvas MT.4.10. OLIEDOM.
Melting Targets
MT.4.9. Massa
A canvas exploring gravity and lightness, in dialogue with the project Virtual Grids.
March 2026
Melting Targets MT.4
Two new canvases within the project Melting Targets have been initiated, titled MT.4.9. Massa and MT.4.10. OLIEDOM.
The reverse side of the canvas: MT.4.3. MAGA
was supplemented with circles and empty stripes, as a subdued reference to a colorless and faded American policy, as can be seen in the image alongside.
Click on the image for an overview of all processes.
Analog folders update
Drawing in Motion
Within the project Drawing in Motion, I am currently taking small, consecutive steps. Older drawings are gradually becoming a fixed part of the large drawing board.
Alien Care
Within the project Alien Care, I am connecting the sculpture to the aluminum construction system. At the bottom of the piece, a container is being added to collect the backing strips of the bandages.
Februari 2026
Thermal Promise
In February I completed Thermal Promise: a wheeled installation in which figure, cage, weight, screen images, and real air currents form a single temporary body.
The wind “plays” the fabric strips, while the screens add a second layer of movement.
See photos, context, and the short video work on the project page.
Januari 2026
The Divider
The painting process progressed this month with further development of the robot and fire elements on the canvas.
MT.4.8. Scoring with Goals
New lines were added to the back of the canvas, further unveiling the work's inherent layers.
The Economy of Silence
The 3D animation was fully finalized this month and is now ready for presentation.
Forgotten Racer Malevich
After updating my website, I realized I had forgotten to include this project. It is now once again fully available for viewing.
Raster Christ
This month, the sculpture was physically anchored within my aluminium construction system as part of the Virtual Grids project.
MT.4.5. The Scissors
An older canvas was sewn onto the reverse side, resulting in a new title and a renewed focus: The Scissors.
Of (f) the grid
The initial steps of this new process involved physically cutting figures from the canvas and sewing them onto a different cloth.
New Butterfly Captured
This month, an old drawing underwent a metamorphosis, becoming a new butterfly within the
Naming–Value Butterflies project.
December 2025
Naming–Value Butterflies
This new project starts from existing drawings. By cutting out the name and date, new forms emerge: value-butterflies that do not carry the image, but the proof of authorship. What usually sits small in a corner yet often determines everything becomes the body of a new species.
Virtual Grids
To the project Virtual Grids (started in 2001), I’m adding new transformations, starting from the reworking of the canvas The Desert (2001). I’m bringing this together with a second canvas that already carries traces of transformation from its use in my studio.
After some study and testing, I can now animate the virtual grid figure; in 2026 I’ll develop this technique into a series of 3D animations.
The Divider (worktitle)
Work continued on this canvas: the first two drawings I used for the project Naming–Value Butterflies have now been permanently attached. The leftovers were burned; the axes have been added as a single strip along the bottom edge of the canvas. The idea is shifting toward flames—the drawings are cut in such a way that a fire-like form becomes visible.
November 2025
The Divider (working title)
The piece began as a play between left and right, an ambiguous choice placed at the entrance of the exhibition. In the studio, green and red flowed apart, later shifting into metal and flesh.
Two drawings — Robotman and Hanging Man — found their place within this field.
The photo shows the most recent intervention: the burning of the edges.
September 2025
Signature of a Rhinoceros
A drawing from 1995, a 2006 oil painting, and a canvas from the Melting Targets project were brought together, taken apart, and rebuilt.
What began as a scene of revenge evolved into Signature of a Rhinoceros: a reborn image where traces, folds, and layers form a new story.