Print – Pagina 25 – Kruf Huyssons

29/09/202216/10/2022

Robin

I love this bird. The robin has beautiful colours. Its orange is dazzling. It lives with wife and children (temporary) in our garden. Companions at home. This summer, the family was part of our household. So far from my perspective and my charcoal pencils.

The present news about dictators, autocrats (on all levels) and democratic power houses brings me to another dimension of this bird. It is of course a personal association, in moments becoming a metaphor.

From ecological point of view the robin is relevant in the food chain. Itself it is a fierceless predator of insects and worms. Hm. Defends its territory with all its focus and effort. It does all what is necessary for that.

I recognise this behaviour in the world of power and influence (as Machiavelli described the world of ‘politics’), reading through today’s headlines – in all sizes, forms and capacities.

What helps in my idea, is the fact that the robin (and with all associations attached) is eaten by owls (wisest of all), buzzards (honest birds), hawks (masters of the wood) and falcons (actors of balance). The circle of life is hard but gives hope. I still love this bird.

Bibliography

Kruf, J.P. (2022) Robin [fine art print]. Breda: private collection.

26/09/202215/11/2022

Storm

There is this feeling a storm is coming and all elements – water, earth, fire and air – will be tested. A personal art expression reading today’s headlines about war, climate change, diversity loss, right wing regimes, loss of democracy and human rights, the lust for and use of power, poverty, pollution and above all incompetent leadership. We seem to be frozen, and paralysed to act swiftly and accurately. What to say, what to feel? Words, I can not find. Paint helps.

28/08/202216/10/2022

The forest for the trees?

To find the forest for the trees can be challenging for a simple human being like me. The emerging of crises in all sorts and dimensions should implicate an expected swift and adequate action, at least from government. I see though a parcelled landscape of initiatives and actions, not that effective or even missing focus and target.

I find myself in a forest with trees all over the place, given me a kaleidoscopic colour palette but no sense where I am and no direction where to go. I try to see the forest for the trees. A personal art impression.

Bibliography

Kruf, J.P. (2022) The forest for the trees? [fine are print]. Breda, The Netherlands: Private collection.

12/06/202214/10/2023

Playful Wind

The wind can be playful in etching the sand on the beach. A natural pattern emerged here, which by the way, says not a lot about the wind, but also about the sand.

In fact, this is a symbolic picture of how organisations and, on a larger scale, even cities can be (trans)formed, sculpted, moulded, and even created by this combination of external and environmental factors on one hand and its own internal strengths and weaknesses (in the palette of behaviour, grip, power, robustness, resilience and diversity) of itself on the other hand.

Here, the emerging pattern has become the natural result of a sand and wind carried out realisation after the SWOT analysis. The result is what was possible. The wind and the sand come to their own expressions. No human or Artificial Intelligence is needed for true art expressions of Mother Nature.

14/02/202201/12/2025

Duir

Ontstaan vanuit de wijsheid van de eik, de koning van het bos, zoals de Kelten hem duiden. Duir is de naam. Bekend om zijn kracht, duurzaamheid en lang leven. De eik werd als heilig beschouwd door de Druïden, de tovenaars en wijzen in het Keltisch rijk.

Duir is ook de zevende letter van het Ogham alfabet en de zevende maand in de Keltische boom kalender. De eik stond en staat hoog in aanzien in vele culturen over heel Europa. De grieken associeerden de boom zelfs met hun oppergod Zeus, de Vikingen met Thor, de Noorse god van Donder en beschermer van de mensheid alsmede de Kelten verbonden hem met hun God van Donder Taranis.

Bijzonder aan Duir is dat hij stevig is en diep wortelt. Hij vormt de basis met zijn hout van vele bouwwerken en vormt de basis voor ontwerp en architectuur. Dit maakt Duir tot een wezen met een hoog IQ en EQ. Elk vorm en kleur van kroon, stam en wortels staat voor een waarde of is in verbonden met de natuurlijke ecosystemen en biomen.

Deze is voor kleinzoon Jochem met alle adviezen die een grootvader zijn kleinzoon kan geven. Future-proof so to speak. De kleuren bevatten de lessen van een grootvader.