Writing
So, you write?
Yes, alongside of my visual work I've always been writing. Several of my artworks feature spoken word pieces, song lyrics and invocational poems and moans. In 2016, I published the novel My Wavy Sarong. Over the years, I've been keeping an online blog on art, ecology and culture; Dripstone. And I write creative content, grant applications and other texts for clients.
Published works
My Wavy Sarong
In 2016, I published my first novel, My Wavy Sarong, which is an animistic and sensual short novel in which the reality of a white western youngster with shamanic aspirations ( 'T' ) meets up with the current reality of Indonesia while on an artistic research holiday. A deeply reflexive adventure that brings art and imagination to the fore as a process of reconciling worlds that sit uncomfortably together.
Cosmic Journey of a Body
In 2013, I published On the Cosmic Journey of a Body or The Political Agency of a Sensitive Digestion. A self-published booklet, ed. 15.
An explorative account seeking an understanding of queer ritual magic and precepts like the Wounded Healer. The novelette takes place between a trip in Iceland, where I was looking for faeries, and my time spent in New York city and the Fire Island Pines, with different kind of faeries. A collection of MFA thoughts on the body and ritual in relation to the work of AA Bronson, Alejandro Jodorowsky and late Genesis P-orridge.
Work for clients
Grants + Projects
I've written grant applications and proposals for visual artists, curators, institutes, and platforms such as Imke Ruigrok, RE_NATURE, Annika Kappner, Gabriel Fontana, MELKWEG Amsterdam, Death & Rebirth Festival and others, successfully acquiring financial support from AFK Amsterdam, CBK Rotterdam, Mondrian Fund, The Creative Industries Fund NL.
2022 All Flourishing is Mutual, MELKWEG exhibition
2021 RE_NATURE, curatorial platform exhibition/festival
2020 Multiform, Gabriel Fontana art project
2019 Deep Planetary Sensing, Annika Kappner art project
Creative content
I've written essays for Mister Motley, O-Wonder! Magazine, and Lost&Found, and fiction for Other Futures Festival, Onomatopee, Holy Male Magazine (CA), Neo-Metabolism, and New York-based educational business VOIZ (USA).
2022 Vessels of Hope, Neo-Metabolism/VOIZ fiction
2020 Op elkaar, met elkaar [...], Mister Motley non-fiction
2020 HOLOX TRIAD, Other Futures Festival fiction
2017 Ultra Ecosexual Polyamory, Onomatopee fiction
2017 Permacultuur: zien wat er is, O Wonder! Magazine non-fiction
2016 Shine Bright Like a Diamond, Lost&Found non-fiction
2014 Recipe #1 for essential liquids, Holy Male Magazine fiction
Ongoingly, I write for the Art, Ecology and Culture blog Dripstone.
Upcoming work
At the moment I am working on two upcoming novels, one personal biographical account reflecting on nature, queerness, neurodivergence and the sacred, and another one about magic and planting the future.
Hire me!
Message me for any creative and/or grant writing (English or Dutch) and I'll let u know my rates.