UPWARDS

“
Find what you love,
and let it kill you.
_ Charles Bukowski
“

‘It is just cold water’

“
Photography
is an art of observation.
It’s about finding something
interesting in an ordinary place…
It has little to do with
the things you see
and everything to do
with the way you see them.
_ Elliot Erwitt
“

Three stories high.
Countless high windows on each side
of the double, heavy, darkgreen door
in the middle.

Books,
they have a heart.

Stories,
Are build by words.
Words,
are built by letters.

‘How is your heart,
dear human?’

Print and paper.
The interplay between the two.
Ongoing fascination of possibilties there.
Plus,
together they smell good.

The excitement of new won,
yesterday.
I forgot something.

I decided to wait.
Four days.

“
The story is the brand.
The design the storytelling.
_ Susan Sellers
“

Numbers.
Page numbers,
for one.
There are more.

It’s Monday.
Raining.
Let’s play.

‘Hey Akkie,
do you read
anything serious too?’

“
Do you have an idea for your story yet?
No, I'm waiting for inspiration.

“
Imagination
is the only weapon
in the war against reality.
_ Lewis Carroll,
Alice in wonderland
“

Soft words.
Poetry.
The essence in words
that give comfort.

Life is a scavenger hunt.

Every day.
A page and a half.
About twenty minutes a day.

“
The details are not the details.
They make the design.
_ Charles Eames
“

Print day.

The idea
a first.

It’s paper,
often cardboard,
and ink,
- the smell of it,
so good.

For 24 days I struggled
to write about my lucky box.

You can’t dance without music.

“
I can imagine anything.
Everything’s possible.
I only have to lift my eyes and
once again I become the world.
Now, on this very spot,
a feeling of happiness that
I could keep forever.
_ Marion, Himmel über Berlin
“

Words have power.
Images can be like velvet.
The combination,
My life long love story.

I found a way.

Creatives bring art.
Creatives bring beauty.
Creatives make change.

City of angels.
The sound of it,
a longing there
since I don’t know when.

I was given ‘carte blanche’.

The shy one.
The one in the back.

Saying yes,
it might take you to the end of the world.

Never meet your heroes
they say.

A Tuesday.
Can be a special day.

‘Did you see that?

For a while I didn’t follow a path.
Just the flow of daily life.

‘Hey, girlfriend’

Change was needed.

“
Do what you can
with what you have.
Nothing more is needed.
_ Rick Rubin
“

It was a daring, fun presentation
of a concept.

It started with one book.

The industriousness.
The realness.
The sense of adventure.

I'm glad he is back
in the front row in my mind.

A gift that struck a chord.
For a lifetime.

Teenagers are fun.

I drew on everything.
Yes,
also on the kitchen table.

A chilly Sunday morning.
Early spring.
The boat is out the boathouse.
Prepared for things to come.

The feeling of ‘yes’

At the end of the avenue
Where a squirrel stands on the chimney
There is that wonderful place
that is the heritage of Herman van Veen.

Hair blowing in the wind.
Cycling down from a bridge.

I am poetry lover.
Been that as long as I can remember
Small bits of texts from songs,
that’s how it started.

The ‘crossover collective’ is a social machine.

Sports and typography,
a good mix

A series of 100 birthdays.

On a Wednesday.

A trip down memorylane.

Neither here nor there.

... a bit longer.