Calligraffiti

Vector art for skydiving company.

Mural with acrylics for Dutch Design week in San Francisco (± 9 x 3 m). Pelicans by Adele Renault. The text is known to be the oldest piece of Dutch literature.

India ink on paper (± 50 x 40 cm). Inverted.

Installing the Throw Ups exhibition (21 october – 21 november 2010) at Arkitip Incase Project Space, Los Angeles.
Video by Caleb Coppola/Logan

In calligraphic art you can only control a small part of the outcome. The rest is determined by intuition, flow and chance. It is only afterwards that you can look at the piece and be amazed and/or disgusted. The title is a reference to the movie A Shot in the Dark (1964) where Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) reviews a case with his usual clumsiness.
Carbon acrylic on linen (49 x 41.5 inch).

Well, you can write them. But you shouldn’t send them.
Carbon acrylic on linen (27 x 19 inch).

Refers to the kitsch centerpiece in the end scene of Scarface by Brian de Palma.
Carbon acrylic on linen (37 x 47 inch).

This line is like a snake eating its tail. The text could have been used for The Atheist Bus Campaign that included 30 buses across London for four weeks in 2009 with the slogan: ‘There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.’
Carbon acrylic on linen (42.5 x 42.5 inch).

…some of them with a very respectable reputation.
Carbon acrylic on linen (37.5 x 35 inch).

If we embrace something like the Big Bang Theory, we should also understand that infinitely big and infinitely small are the same.
Carbon acrylic on linen (27 x 19 inch).

The O-filler is a poem by Alastair Reid and Herb Lubalin once said that designers are O-fillers.
Carbon acrylic on linen (53.5 x 46 inch).

Title can be seen written on a bathroom wall in the 2008 movie Surveillance. There is a Navajo proverb that has the same kind of quality: ‘It is impossible to awaken someone who is pretending to be asleep.’
Carbon acrylic on linen (46 x 46 inch).

Full text: not something new but something old, and dirty. From the track Raw Hide (1995) by Ol’Dirty Bastard.
Carbon acrylic on linen (36 x 34 inch).

Vector art for MTV Networks ad.

The Unanswered Question is a work by American composer Charles Ives which instantly induces cold shivers because you can feel that it deals with something really big (or really small).
Carbon acrylic on linen (52.5 x 42 inch).