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  • Garage Cafe #2.4

    At Garage Cafe #2.4 Rosa and I gave an artist talk presenting our webcomic. We introduced our project and handed out two postcards to all the people who attended. One postcard was for them to keep, a souvenir from Switzerland, with a QR-code. The other…

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  • Veerwilddragers

    Veerwilddragers, mijn bed in de binnenstad (2024) is part one of the Mini Poëzie Bundels by Maurits Boskamp en Nik van der Meulen. Veerwilddragers is a collaborative mini zine created by artist Nik and poet Maurits, merging visual art and poetry to capture the essence…

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  • Keep building your house, Mrs. Winchester

    Keep building your house, Mrs. Winchester (2024) tells the story of Sarah Winchester. Legend has it that she went mad with grief after the death of her husband and child. Sarah consulted a medium who warned her of vengeful spirits seeking retribution for the lives…

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  • Oh, to feel at home

    Oh, To Feel at Home (2024) is an 8-page zine. It’s printed on 100gr green label paper, with three different colours of soy-based ink. The booklet is an A6 zine, folded from an A3 piece of paper—15×10.5 cm.The zine has mostly illustrations and some text.…

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  • Writing down good reasons to freeze to death

    Writing down good reasons to freeze to death in my spiral ring notebook (2023), 36 pages, A5. (first edition) Self-published. This project served as an exploration of common themes in my artistic practice. escapism, isolation, solitude and melancholy are important in my work. These themes have…

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  • I met Poseidon the other day…

    I met Poseidon the other day… he just had his wisdom teeth removed and the anesthetic had not quite worn off yet (2023), 20 pages, A5. (first edition) Self-published. This is a magical realism zine. In the zine, you’ll go on an adventure through the…

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  • Prehistoric Crafts

    Prehistoric Crafts (2023), 24 pages, A5. (first edition) Self-published. In the zine, you’ll find drawings of Stone Age tools and information on materials and crafts, what they made and how they lived—illustrations of the tools and cave paintings.The 24-page zine has info on the regular…

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  • Viking Age Fashion

    Viking Age Fashion (2023), 20 pages, A5. (second edition) Self-published. This is an informational zine based on archaeological evidence. In the zine you’ll find illustrations of fashion in Scandinavia from the 8th to the 11th century. It explores both masculine and feminine fashion. It brings…

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  • Radio show

    Fine Art End Term broadcast (2022) is radio show that presents a collection of audio pieces made by second-year students of the Willem de Kooning Academy Define Art major!Tune in and listen to sounds that explore the potential of radio and broadcasting infrastructures as a…

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