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Around the year 2000 26% of Dutch people are living below sea level. Without dikes and dunes 60% of the Netherlands would regularly overflow.
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The picture is part of a series entitled "Normal". I made it for the artistic research project "What If" by @noorderlicht@pixelfed.social and Sign Groningen in 2020. My good friend Kasper posed in the cold water as businessman.
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#ThrowbackThursday #photography #sealevelrise #climatechange #contemporaryart #groningen #fotografie #businessasusual

A picture of a young man in suit, steering a car while the water is reaching up to his chin. He is looking rather unimpressed with the situation.

@sean@mastodon.me.uk thank you!

Some pottery I made for Caesar's Ford Theatre in the US. It's now traveling over the Atlantic Ocean. To the right you can see the 17th century pieces that were used for reference.
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#pottery #archeology #history #props #handmade

four pieces of pottery: a redware pitcher, a cauldron and a bowl with green glaze on the inside and a large green cauldron.

A large group of archeological pottery and glass with many colors and different shapes. Some pieces are broken of glued together.

@MissConstrue@mefi.social thanks!

A beaver plate that I recently designed and made for my girlfriend.
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#pottery #craft #art #design # kunst #beaver

A yellow plate with a scratched drawing of a beaver in the middle, floating in the middle of a floral pattern of curling leaves.

The Louvre is a kind of majolica heaven! I visited the museum on Friday and saw this extraordinary pitcher. Dating: 1480. Made in Faenza, Italy.
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#ceramics #pottery #renaissance #louvre #paris #art #decorativeart #faenza #majolica #kunst

A wide pitcher glazed in many colors, with the face of a boy sculpted on the belly. He's got yellow hair and a bit of a panicky look on his face.

Wauw, vet! gefeliciteerd!

I usually don't do cartoons but this guy makes me so angry. Wilders is a nonsense populist with dangerous xenophobic ideas. in a sense, it's a blessing that he turned out to be incapable of making a difference when he had the chance. Today he took a huge dump on the Netherlands by dropping out of the Cabinet, blaming others while he was at the steering wheel.
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#geertwilders #wilders #dutchgovernment #cabinetschoof

A cartoon of Wilders with a dogs' body taking a dump on the Netherlands

@Ayako@troet.cafe and looking down on us

@Ayako@troet.cafe the sun has feelings too 🫥

@sollat@masto.ai indeed! It's a medieval aquamanile for handwashing. A real piece to show off with if you have guests coming over for diner.

Which piece do you like best?
They are still hot from the kiln. Most of them are replicas of historical originals from the 13th to the 17th century.
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#pottery #pottenbakker #slipware #reenactment #livinghistory #history #cup #craft #handmade

Some people think air pockets in pottery are dangerous, but it's really moist. Water expands about 1700 times when it turns into steam... you can move a train with that! So, drying your pottery is important. And: firing GENTLY.
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#pottery #pottenbakker #handmade #art #workinprogress #craft

A collection of unfired pottery, like bowls, cups, a dish and many decorated jugs with sculpted faces.

The Roman mortarium was used for grinding food. That's why the inside has a rough surface, in this case created by adding fine gravel to the clay. Below: a replica I made. The original is from the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden / dating 1-300 AD / found in Welten NL
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#romanhistory #romans #archeology #history #pottery #ancientcraft #romeinen #archeologie #livinghistory #reenactment

Two bowls: one old, one new. Both are white, wide, made of earthenware, rough on the inside and they have a pouring lip.

Aebele Trijsburg boosted:

The Roman mortarium was used for grinding food. That's why the inside has a rough surface, in this case created by adding gravel to the clay. Below: a replica I made. Original from Rijksmuseum van Oudheden / dating 1-300 AD / found in Welten NL
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#romanhistory #romans #archeology #history #pottery #ancientcraft #romeinen #archeologie #livinghistory #reenactment

Two white earthenware bowls with a rough surface on the inside.

My painting "Nobody's Land". It's a work about the idea that humans are only guests on earth. So much has existed far before our short existence. We might consider acting less like masters of our surroundings - using all the resources for our benefit - and more like travelers - acting with respect towards the soil and other living beings.
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painting made in 2021, oil on panel, size 40 x 30 cm.
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#ThrowbackThursday #painting #art #schilderij #kunst #contemporaryart #artist

A late night landscape with mountains in the background. On the front plane there's a small traveler's tent lighting up like a light bulb

I just replaced the platform of my potter's wheel. The main source for this medieval kickwheel is a playing card from 1455 depicting a potter at work (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien).
Second image: using the kickwheel during my last event at #utrecht (Hanne Hansen Photography).
Want to know more about the potter's wheel reconstruction? click the link below:
https://atelierable.nl/a-throwback-to-the-medieval-potters-wheel/
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#pottery #reenactment #archeology #history #craft #pottenbakker #medievalpotter

A selfie with a happy looking straw hat dude in the woods. Behind him there's a true wonder of medieval technology: a potter's wheel that consists of a platform with a kickwheel on top.

Same dude but on a market square, using the potter's wheel in medieval attire while some people are watching

A medieval image of a female potter working with bare feet on an elegant pot in front of her on the kickwheel. There's a pile of clay in the foreground, some jugs on a shelf in the background, a red shield with a white lion to the left and the name "hefneryn" written above her head.

So you would expect that even this special Bartmann jug was made in a series. But I haven't seen another one! Until I made this replica. Now there's a chance for me to continue the Bartmann tradition with series of this dude... and other Bartmann jugs of course!

Although... they were made with moulds! Not one huge mould to cast the whole thing but smaller ones for different details. The jugs themselves where first thrown on the potter's wheel and then decorated with thin sheets of clay that were pressed in those moulds.

Now back to the full body Bartmann jug that I started with. The one with the pewter lid is the original that was probably made between 1525-1550 in Cologne. It's now in the Victoria and Albert museum. Bartmann jugs came in many varieties but this one, with a body and hands, is quite unique.

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