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    “A Gentle Greeting at Portal 5”  Digital pen drawing created with Procreate  Drawing time: 103 hours  Size: 47 × 77 cm    Looking back at the last few portal drawings, I noticed that most of the landscapes were rather desolate and sparse. For this one, I wanted a change — to fill the scene with plants and more life. `   This is already the thirteenth drawing in the series.  Portal Drawings  2025  5 — A Gentle Greeting at Portal 5  8 — The Weight of Balance  9 — Showing Respect to Time on Its Side  11 — Sunset Negotiations  13 — The Warning Sign  37 — A Severe Case of Pareidolia  2024  12 — The Crow  15 — Looking Over My Shoulder  19 — The Guard at Portal 19 (Is an Old Friend)  21 — The Citadel – Meeting a Fellow Traveller  24 — Near the Baobab  27 — The New Structure  31 — Difficult Exit – The Spider
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    Portal 9 - Showing Respect to Time on Its Side Digital drawing with Procreate on the iPad.  Total drawing time: 103 hours  Strokes: 215065 Max.  print size: 80 x 50 cm    Thinking a lot of our perception of time while drawing this.  Time here does not flow as it should; it lies on its side, suspended, defiant, vulnerable. With hat in hand, the Traveller acknowledges what cannot be controlled — the stillness between past and future.    Our very conception of time is ancient: the Egyptians already divided the day into 24 hours, while the Babylonians gave us 60 minutes and 60 seconds. To stand before time, then, is to face thousands of years of human measure — and something far older, that no measure can contain.
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  Portal 8 - The Weight of Balance    Total strokes: 209863  tracked time: 84h 41m  dimensions: 61 x 35 cm at 450 DPI 
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 Portal 11: Sunset Negotiations    The eleventh in my portal series—this time the number and title finally match.  Digital drawing,  2025  ⏱ 110 hours ·  ✍️ 372,922 strokes    🧳 “The traveler meets an emissary in an unfamiliar tide.”    Unlike some of the other drawings in this series, the portal here is deliberately minimal—just a structure that resembles a lift door. I kept it simple so it wouldn’t distract from the strange interaction unfolding at the shoreline. This scene is more about the meeting than the passage.    
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  Another drawing finished—another homage, or perhaps more of a eulogy. Seventeen years ago, in a large open space between two newly built Flemish government buildings in Antwerp’s De Kievit neighborhood, a monumental artwork was installed. It was created by three artists— Rolf Mulder , Dirk Lenaerts , and Joris Michielsen . I know Rolf personally. The work consisted of five towering metal structures, their forms reminiscent of African baobabs. They had to be made of metal because underneath the concrete square was an extensive underground parking garage. The original concept included planting wisterias in the tops of the trees, allowing them to grow and entwine through the branches. The trees even had built-in water supply systems to nourish the plants. But after a few years, the government shut off the water. The wisterias withered and died. And now, just a few weeks ago, the trees themselves were taken down—removed to make way for a covered walkway, so that government employe...
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 Looking over my shoulder - 2024 Digital drawing with Procreate on the iPad.
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 The Citadel 2024 Digital pen drawing (iPadPro with Procreate)
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