LEDGER [ 2026 ]
LEDGER [ 2026 ]
30 cm X 30 cm X 2m [sugar, glitter, mixed aggregates.]
Stationed by a polder channel in flood-prone Leeuwarden, sugar crystal barnacles recall a molasses flood that has long since passed.
At roughly 175cm, a distinct demarcation is woven from duration and withdrawal, bearing close resemblance to the habits of an annotating author.
In tandem, this residue-data is provisional. In an instrument's demand for legibility and the flood's demand for revision, previous remnants are often overwritten.
This conflict between standardized measurement and material debris calls upon the temporality of documentation.
*Is archival only a sequence of dominant surfaces?
*Is measurement just a cyclical act of forgetting?
*Is the labor of an instrument's operation all that’s left to be weighed?
The crystal epitomizes a third mode of archival contribution that operates through transmutation.
Like mud lines to stone, dripping faucet to calcite, and molasses to crystal; the story of hardened debris fortifies the data log and offers a compound account of temporal history.
I submit the spatiotemporal debris from floods (overlapping yet non-displacing) as a methodological model of cumulative archival.
TINKER
VHDG Leeuwarden [ 2026 ]
In collaboration with Frysk Flikker Front
[ An exhibition about tinkering, failing, and starting all over again. ]
Tinker: in English, it means crafting and improvising, but in Frisian, it means thinker or philosopher. At first glance they seem like two very different activities, tinkering and contemplating, but is it possible to practice them simultaneously?
In the exhibition Tinker, curator Michiel Teeuw brings together various creative practices. Artists, designers, activists, and other tinkers attempt to make the world a little more livable and beautiful – for themselves and others, from Fryslân and far beyond.
They tinker, build, mess around, play, experiment, gamble, fail, fumble, and start again. Through the act of making, these tinkers explore themes such as magic, play, violence, time, the mundane, liberation and spirituality. In doing so, they work – together or alone – towards a better existence.
The exhibition gathers the playful and the peculiar: from beachcomber clocks to cosmic amulets, from attempts at flight to snowmen, and from phallic posters to glitter weapons, ancient stone drawings, and activist camps.
These are attempts to pry life loose from its hinges. The tinkers craft their lives together through play, protest, dreams, action and ritual. The exhibition invites you to start tinkering yourself: by making, failing, and starting all over again.