Tarnation: This series is an experiment in the meaning of materials. A kind of architecture is made from handmade waxes, tars and pigments. An almost ecclesiastical architecture arises out of bitumen and tar, wax and damar. Drawings made of charcoal ink, gum arabic, shellac, etc sketch a new direction for mixing Read more…
Aviaries: Both Aviaries and the series Harpies are an expression of “natures revenge” and inescapable human hubris. There is an architecture made to contain nature, in a sense to bring us closer to nature, but it is exploded and degraded. The human and historical elements are too apparent to ever allow Read more…
photo Benno Ellerbroek Hoorn is an old city in the North of Holland on the shores of the former Zuyder Sea. In the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries it was wildly prosperous, and sent its merchants and soldiers the world over in search of glory and domination. Great profits, Read more…
What do you do to stay professionally sharp and give back? Each year Todd takes some time out to work as a guest lecturer: this year at the Netherlands Film Academy, at the Reinwardts Academie (museum sciences) and at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences for its multi-media minor “immersive design”. Since Read more…