Achterberg Conversion Modules

Staying in Utrecht for a residency at Impakt Foundation, the artist observes from his first floor apartment Dutch football fans as they go World Cup crazy. He puts himself to work and uses a Dutch-English dictionary to translate some poems written by Gerrit Achterberg. After putting down on paper ’kinderangst’ (children’s anxiety) as a first word the translations become the source for wandering line animations; the animations - amongst others an animal skeleton - are simplified and tattooed on the artist.