This is a collage. A collage combines different visual parts within an artwork to tell a story.

The collage contains: foto’s from magazines and newspapers, copies, painted and drawn pieces, linoleum prints on paper. And about 1000 kopper nails. The outline of the complete work is galooned with a copper edge.

The collage is named after a project by Edward Muybridge ‘The human figure in motion ‘. In the late nineteenth century, Muybrigde made scientific photographes of human movement. Above you see people, cut out of copies from this project. These are the first known photo’s in history that capture the exact movement of mankind. How does somebody take a step? And even though that person died, she or he seems alive and moving, a human figure in motion. As a species we expand our ancestors’ achivements. For me, these photo’s stand for this urge, with all of our bad and good intensions. The human figure in motion.

During the Kosovo war in 1999, one could constantly see figutives on tv, about 350.000 people where displaced. That’s why I placed so many people in the collage. When you see all these people walking by on the tv screen, and you zap on, you might, as in my work, come across a cycling competition, an examination, a civil war, a forest fire, a dance, a baby, an action movie, on to the latest commercial offer, the Gaza Strip and a quiz. The human figure in motion.