Monday, November 21, 2011

Harehatted Girl


One morning, as I came tripping down the stairs
my father noticed my hair was like a hare's.
"Take of that silly hat" he spat "this minute, miss!"
I stood still, made quite uncomfortable by this.

"Dad..." I began, dragging my eyes from his irrate stare,
this is my normal hair... it just looks like a hare's."

"I dreamed them up one day, I'm unsure how,
and these ears just sprouted out my brow!
I can comb them and they do this bounce that I love
and they stop my earphones from slipping off."

This I explained as I inched 'round to make good my escape.
"Anyway, I've got to run, I'm late, I'm terribly, terribly late!"


Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Autumnal Riding Hood


Aan het grazige gras
op het vossige mos
in sappige schaduw
in lommer en luw

On knowing knoll
on resting crest
in crisping whistling
leafy evening

Monday, August 15, 2011

Werewolf Button

A horrible button,
because we carry our shadows with us just as much as our light sides.
So why not pin them to your blouse sometimes?

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Birdtailed Coat





Growing up I used to dream of having such a coat.
I used to imagine stories about my own fantasy world.  
There was a girl there who became a ghost and could walk through time.
She would sit silently in the morning twilight, with the ravens and the jack daws.

She had a coat like that.  

She could wear whatever she imagined, and could tell fortunes by reading spiderwebs.  
Only she couldn't remember her own name, for she had lost most of the memories of her life.

Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Logo for de Kosmonaut


The logo is in a style reminiscent of old ex libris bookmarks and profile portraits in the 19th century. And my work ofcourse :)

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Sketch for the Year of the Rabbit




Patrick said this sketch is very much about me:
How I want to feel rooted and held like the Rabbit girl is by the tree.
How I love tea and comfort, nature and playful objects, like the Rabbit hat.
And how I keep a little light of hope burning on the side.

When someone sees you so well,
it's like being given the gift of yourself, by someone you love.

Monday, April 04, 2011

New drawings for buttons


Girl in fox-sweater and starry sky



Roundfox


Elvira's discovery



Captain Fishhead

Thursday, November 05, 2009

By hob

By hob and not,
with bounding trot
by stricken stride
I bound the night.


The moon and gloom
my silent guide,
by breath and bale
and winding trail.

To light a light
would dark the night
and make alone
my shadow own

Therefore the twink
of dawning pink
will be my glow,
by hob I go.


Saturday, September 12, 2009

Midnight

Midnight

I loved you, secretly
like hidden moon loves sun

Beguiled I watched you, waning

waxing when you'd come

Poppies flower under moonlight
nod and whisper in twilight breeze

I lie below them looking up
at blackest sky and starlit trees


Into the void of ocean night

I cast m
y calling soul
Far as stars we are apart

flying as we fall

Night crickets hold their breath

mute to poppies' silen
t song
I lie where I once loved you

hollow as the night is long


Monday, August 31, 2009

Buttons!



Above: "Autumn Queen" and "Bastian Starlight", €1,- each. Size: 32mm.



Above: "Little Red RidingFox" and " Hare Girl", €1,50 each. Size: 45mm




Above: "Dreary's Daughter" and "The year of the Ox", €2,- each. Size: 56mm


You can order them from me, or buy them at subcultures in Utrecht.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Drawing at Castlefest 2009




Here I'm drawing at the artsquare at Castlefest Festival 2009. (Note my very fist merchandise on the first picture: buttons!)