Playing with words. Just feeling a little bit like a child again. It was my journey in march.

At het Academy (Art Academy Haarlem/ Leiden) we had new lessons: it was about making movies. Oh the joy, the joy.
How much fun it is, to create your own movies. I found out that i really liked the drawing, looking for words, working with an old machine and viewing the results.

Maybe i liked being the manager of a specific product. A movie, however small or short the movie is, is not just a small thing. It takes al lot of work and whether you like making movies or not: it's not an easy thing to do and it takes a lot of time. So in my point of view it deserves some respect.

I never made movies before, not like that. With kind of making a storyboard and working out the storyline ahead. Before this experience i always made movies out of pictures and now i had to create the images in a different way. I liked it, really liked it. I couldn't stop dwawing and creating. It was really so much fun. But it takes lots of time. It gave a lot of energy, but started taking over my agenda.

So, after the (fortunately) short period of these lessons i realized exactly how much time i had spend on creating images for movies - which is beautiful, of course - and how little time i had spend on my social live. I just had to catch up on that and realized that loosing yourself in your passion can also mean that in the end you will find yourself to be very lonely, with lots of art surrounding you. I certainly didn't want that, so after that really nice experience of creating short pictures, i ended my career as self-proclaimed director and continued working on painting in my studio.

With a door i could close after me, after working there for a few hours.

And started creating a social  live again.