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Opening Sunday 4 October, 15:00: Fool's Gold at De Firma in Gouda, together with Sanne, Majke & MIranda.

Pyrite is called fool's gold because it shines like the real thing and is worth nothing. I think we have it the wrong way round. The shine is not the illusion. The value is.
As you know this is the thing I keep circling back to, and it is still the worry I wake up with. An economy that has to keep growing will eat the thing it grows on, and we all know it, and we keep going, because stopping feels like losing and the damage happens somewhere we never have to look.

For a while now I have been collecting the paperwork of that logic. Annual reports, bankruptcy filings, Lehman Brothers documents. And then giving it the shine it always pretended to have.
Materials that were thrown away, made to look precious. Which is the trick, and also the point. (If you want to make something instead of despairing, I am giving workshops in the exhibition space itself, cyanotype on 14 October and phytograms on the 17th, both at 14:00.)

Image 1, image transfer on waste photopaper treated with gold
Image 2, fytogram on gold paper
Image 3, double exposure with plant from my garden

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