EPISODES
De tuin van verlangen +
Atelier around the globe +
Illustrations
Origin Habitat +
Niets is alles omvattend +
Iden-tity crisis in corri +
S1 +
Afri-K +
Anna never lies (photography) +
The love of dining together +
My projects mostly consist out of several outputs.
There’re so many stories to tell,
and so many ways to do so.
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Video I made with videographer Julian Thomas for my project on ‘Voordekunst’. 20230128
Pigeon milk’
oil on canvas
The newest painting from the series ‘sir of horses’. My search for love, my awareness of behaving patterns. The paintings originate semi unconsciously, and even I just understand the messages when they’re done. There’s so much symbolism. The fear blinding us. I try to ask myself: but actually what is there to lose? I think you’ll just gain. Whatever the outcome. I want to ‘live with passionate surrender’ even though it’s hard and scary af at times, the more I jump, themore I feel like I can’t fall.
The newest painting from the series ‘sir of horses’. My search for love, my awareness of behaving patterns. The paintings originate semi unconsciously, and even I just understand the messages when they’re done. There’s so much symbolism. The fear blinding us. I try to ask myself: but actually what is there to lose? I think you’ll just gain. Whatever the outcome. I want to ‘live with passionate surrender’ even though it’s hard and scary af at times, the more I jump, themore I feel like I can’t fall.
Enjoy the cavalry rodeo..
‘save a horse, ride a mustache’
I grow rich from life inside -
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I come from a place where individuality - freedom - is sacred. The Netherlands, ‘the country of freedom’, where you create your own life, as sane or wild as you choose. (As long as you color within the lines.) We’ve broken free from the suppression of women. We refuse to be looked down on, controlled, or dependent. There’s a fire inside all women - the wild woman - and as I write this, I feel her burning inside of me. Never make me small. Never put words in my mouth or actions onto my body. I decide. I as an individual human being. With my own mind and will. This freedom carries the weight of generations who fought for it. For centuries, it wasn’t “normal” for women to be their own person. To be free.
And here, we clash. Even though we share the same light and mind, your roots carry something else. In your culture, freedom has a different shape. I feel it when you talk about being watched by neighbours who don’t see you, just how you look on your family.
Women are often invisible like that - ignored, silenced. I refuse to ever feel that.
In your world, everything is shared - even the self. Nothing belongs solely to you. That makes our worlds hard to merge - mine of freedom, yours of togetherness.
But maybe that’s our greatest strength.
You teach me unity.
I teach you freedom.
This topic has many paths - emotional, rational, dark, and light. It’s a balancing act.
And I grow rich from life within.
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Hands have always inspired me. There’s stories in hands. They’re healing, oh so healing. I love most to hold your hand. In my sleep, use your hand as my pillow. These creative, beautiful creatures of hands.
vulvessel
see more‘praise your magic vessel’
Often I get the question: ‘why I am so fascinated by vulvas and penises?’. It’s not that I am more ‘fascinated’ by our genitalia then any other body parts. Dick’s and vulva’s, in full force, have just missed the spotlight in art and life for long, so long, that that’s the “thing” people giggle about/mention when they see my art. THAT’S what fascinates me. To me, the genitals are just as ‘natural’ as a nose for example. We all have ‘m. More and more I find how many people have lost contact with his/her genitals because of the taboo on nudity. Especially women often have no idea what their vulva looks like let alone how she works/what she likes. With this ‘magic vessel’ I want to inspire women to make more contact with her vulva.
Our magical vessel that creates life and could make a mens genitalia to rise, just by being/thinking of.*
* inspired by book ‘Pussy’ - Regena Thomashauer
(GO READ)
calling ro-mens
Ro-mance
Romance
Ro mance
Ro mens
Mens
ROMENS
Exhibition @ KUNSTLICHT
2024
Edelstier’
see more‘Meneer van de paarden’
In een tijd waarin veel individueel lijkt te zijn, waar men op zoek is naar “zelf”, reflecteert op trauma’s en deze eerst betracht te verwerken voor het openen naar een ander, de (online) mogelijkheden van partnerschap mij door de bomen het bos niet meer laten zien en ‘we’re fully aware of our self worth as well as f*cking afraid to be vulnerable’, ben ook ik op zoek naar mijn levenspartner. ‘Mijn prins op het witte paard’ zoals dat in elk sprookje dat wij van wieg af aan hebben meegekregen wordt beloofd. Waarbij het woord ‘sprookje’ toch niet genoeg benadrukt wordt… Sprookje: volksverhaal waarin beroep wordt gedaan op fantasie.
In mijn binnenwereld zou het allemaal niet zo moeilijk hoeven zijn. Ik bouw mijn “huis”, (mijn fundament), en “Pietje” doet hetzelfde. Bewust van zelf en omgeving maak je elke dag de keuze het leven samen te beleven omdat dat het nòg leuker maakt. In de praktijk is dit vaak toch net niet helemaal het geval.
Met Esmé, mijn geniale en ook single vriendin, spreek ik geregeld over deze zoektocht. En zagen wij een karikatuur van Carice van Houten uit Alles is Liefde voor ons; ‘Ik moet even meneer van de paarden hebben. Meneer van de paarden!!?’. En zo is mijn project geboren. Als die partner en nog niet is, dan maar met alle enthousiasme die ik voel voor ons samenzijn creaties scheppen.
Vulva sculpturen helpen herinneren aan de kracht van ‘the female magical vessel that creates life and could make a men’s genitalia to rise’. ‘Edelstier’ – Illustreert een mogelijke verbinding via parels om de hals van een naakte vrouw die leiden naar een man en stier in het water.
Via verschillende rivieren, probeer ik de illusie van gescheidenheid te verbreken. Want ja, ‘alle rivieren komen uiteindelijk uit in de zee.’
(Een grappig weetje is dat ik tijdens deze ‘meneer van de paarden’ zoektocht vertelde de man waar ik hoteldebotel van werd in onze zielendans, dat zijn naam ‘friend of horses’ betekend.. Helaas mocht deze zielendans niet baten.)
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what was
2020+
The happy moment Alex and I met on his 28th bday and I gifted him a ceramic dick.Hometown JournalRead full interview
“By playfully turning things around, like putting a horse on a person's back, it makes people stop and think. It's about challenging those perceptions and drawing attention to the natural unity that exists.”
Part of interview with @alexschuchmann @hometownjournal__
“By playfully turning things around, like putting a horse on a person's back, it makes people stop and think. It's about challenging those perceptions and drawing attention to the natural unity that exists.”
Part of interview with @alexschuchmann @hometownjournal__
RECONSTRUCTED
2019A project by Jolien Willenborg. She ‘reconstructed’ old clothing she had and found. In current live people tend to throw away so much stuff because “it’s out of style”. So to give these pieces a new life, she created this collection.
I did the photography, filming and editing of this project.
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© Dolian Mara Oosterman 2025
© Dolian Mara Oosterman 2025