Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Alex Janvier


Ongoing protests in the Netherlands over the 9pm curfew. On the 7am CBC radio news this morning we heard from a Dutch teen who said, in a very angry voice, "We're bored!" Last night a Covid testing centre was burned to the ground.

In my inbox yesterday was a 2011 picture by Dutch artist Joop van Haudt of the Beeldbank Rijkswaterstaat. I was reminded of what Alex Javier once told me about his paintings: how they can mark the river banks where indigenous people lived, until the railway bossed them off it, and the giant bird in the sky.

Below is Join Up (n.d.), 14" x 14", acrylic on canvas:




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