Escape from Alcatraz Print

I am a serial creator: a musician and visual artist of Dutch/German origin. I have produced a lot of very diverse work like songs, dance-tracks, piano music and ensemble pieces but also collages, poetry and educational ‘Freedom’ tote bag. Despite this I still feel like I have hardly begun. I am as a visual artist self taught and work intuitively but as a work starts to take shape, I add immense detail and hidden messages. I consciously try to contribute to the beauty in this world and don’t care if a piece takes me forever. I am not a beginner anymore and as I have evolved on the journey of life, I now understand that I am a receiver of energy and grace; a translator of creative/primal force. A storyteller who sometimes uses the medium of image and at other times sound or words. Originally a jazz singer and rock n’ roll freak trying to live outside the ‘normal/mundane’ world, I still have a phobia for authority and am scared of obedient people. After two nervous breakdowns and a million boyfriends, I am now a yogini who is still addicted to doing what I love. That this is often difficult in a culture obsessed with materialism, appearances and competition, which continually broadcasts messages of fear, lack and limitation doesn't surprise me anymore. Although I have been a critical thinker and have been ‘awake’ for many years, the last few years of global tyranny, manipulation and propaganda have shown how easy it is to divide ignorant people and how passive, institutionalised and addicted to our own enslavement we have become. This was scary but has only convinced me to become even more truth full and rooted in the only real thing: God aka Love. Aka the fantastically beautiful and mind-blowing ocean that we are continuously swimming in filled with joy, fun, hope, adventure, humour, kindness, fellowship, justice, creativity, vision, wisdom, abundance, knowledge, ecstasy, solidarity, compassion, connectedness, expansion, revelation, blessings, miracles, wisdom and freedom. Tyranny, totalitarianism, monopolies, consumerism, greed, bankers wars or ‘the gleichschaltung’ (look it up!) are not only immensely boring but also very limited narratives, and as our children can be made to believe anything let’s never shut up and tell other stories. I know that most people are at least trying to be good and nearly everyone is bursting with creative energy.