Reading about evil I found a dead rat someone threw into my garden. It was all dried out, mummified. I already put it in a bag and parked it to bring it to the garbage, when I wondered: why this bad name? After some reconsideration I brought the rat back into the garden and cut off its tail.
rattus sapiens
WOOL, SILK, RAT-TAIL
Year: 2017
Material: wool, silk, dead rat with loose tail, wooden frame, weave tools
Dimensions frame: 33 x 33 cm
rattus sapiens
THEY DON'T SEE YOU AS I DO
(BEN LYRICS)
Year: 2020
Material: photo, rat-tail, polyester yarn
Dimensions: 35 x 33 cm
Photo Nico Bick
Foto van De Groene Amsterdammer met daarop vastgenaaid een geprepareerde rattenstaart.
De foto van Michael Jackson is gemaakt door Andy Warhol. ‘They don’t see you as I do’ komt uit de liedtekst van ‘Ben’, de eerste grote solohit van Michael Jackson. Het toen 14 jarige kind zong over een vriendschap met een rat.
rattus sapiens
WOOL, SILK, RAT-TAIL
Year: 2018
Material: wool, silk, rat-tail, wood
Dimensions: 33 x 33 cm
rattus sapiens
WOOL, SILK, RAT-TAIL
Year: 2019
Material: wool, silk, rat-tail, wood
Dimensions: 33 x 33 cm
rattus sapiens
I AM RATTY
reference to Salvador Dali's statement
"I don't do drugs, I am drugs"
Year: 2017
rattus sapiens
GENUS RATTUS SAPIENS #123
Year: 2018
Material: wool
Dimensions: 150 x 220 cm
rattus sapiens
Year: 2018
Material: wool on cardboard
Dimensions: 20 x 30 cm
rat gallery
Year: 2020 ongoing
selfies made with rat tails
rattus sapiens
PEEP
Year: 2017