(page will be
from time to time updated)
Mieren –
Ants - Hormigas
Tijdens een Artist in residence verblijf
bij Arteventura in Zuid
West Spanje in 2023
keek ik vaak naar de grote zwarte mieren rond het atelier.
Mieren zijn waar ze
voedsel vinden en nesten kunnen maken.
Ze waren in de Sierra
de Aracena zo groot
dat ze goed te observeren zijn.
Ik begon ze te tekenen,
ze worden soms individuele personages.
Vlekken op kleding verteken
ik tot mier.
Afzonderlijke mieren
teken ik met inkt of verf
op handgeschept papier en geef ik bij gelegenheden weg.
Zo zijn mieren een
verwijzing naar zichzelf en naar gelijkenissen.
Tot nu toe zijn
getekende mieren meegereisd
op kleding, geruild, geschonken (met of zonder vraag
of opdracht).

Ants
eating watermelon rinds, Arteventura, Spain 2023
EN
Ants – Ants - Hormigas
During an artist-in-residence
stay
at Arteventura
in south-west Spain in 2023.
I often watched the large black
ants around the studio.
Ants are found wherever they
can find food and build nests.
In the Sierra de Aracena,
they were so large that they
were easy to observe.
I began drawing them;
they sometimes become
individual characters.
I distort stains on clothing to
resemble ants.
I draw individual ants in ink
or paint on handmade paper
and occasionally give them
away.
In this way, ants refer both to
themselves and to similarities.
So far, the drawn ants have
travelled
on clothing, been exchanged or
given away
(sometimes I receive photos of
their travel or new home).
AideMemoires-ERf Arteventura, Spain 2025



Photo by Conny
Snoek. Her Ant travelled from Het Lage Noorden (Friesland)
to her studio and painter’s palette. April 2026

Photo by Katharina Langer (D) Her Ant travelled from Het Lage Noorden (Friesland) To
her home in Hamburg and find a place in her painting. April 2026

Het Lage Noorden received from me a box with ants and notes about my stay
in March/April 2026

Photos by
Isolde Nagel. Ant travelling from The Hague to Potsdam (D) in June 2026 Unifying
Fury

Photo by Aklaida. This ant travelled with Aklaida from Mallorca to Rotterdam in April 2025

Photo by Rins.
Ant travelling in Mallorca with Rins and Malouke, April
2025

Ellen Rodenberg, Performance in an
apron painted with ants, in Dordrecht, March 2026

On
MEKH Beach- Reversal of the Tide
Athens 2024

Will Lutz
80 (July 2026)