#12 Stigma by Design
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HOW IT IS TO GROW UP IN GOVERNMENTAL YOUTH CARE AND WHAT LIFE IS AFTERWARDS? In images...
Random artworks and photographs relating to a life with extreme stigma and exclusion during and after residential youth care in the Netherlands: Stigma by Design. Including 13 additional photographs that ground the artwork in reality. © Jimmy Groen 1996-2026
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Brought into the the baby ward 1965
My home III (1964)
pastel drawing from memory created in 1996
Self portrait: who am I?
Acrylic on paper 1992 21 x 30 cm
(my first drawing ever)
At kindergarten
photography 1967
The third gender
Composed objects 2016
Jimmy Eight
Self -portrait with Jimmy
pastel and mixed media 2004
Blueprint for life
photography 2025
Mama, papa and Jimmy
43 x 56 cm original
Pastel on paper 2023
My mother and me 1989
Microscopic photography
Helper Haven Groningen- Toddler group and three leading boys, 1965
pastel drawing Jim A. 1998
The doors of the baby ward in Helper Haven, Groningen 1965
pastel 1996
Tim and Alex with their own baby , "baby-Sven"
Photography 2025
The Saint of the children's home
with Pietertje
Pastel on paper 1997
In the Realm of Boys, 1994
Microscopic photography 2022
Turbulence at 6
Mixed digital media with photography 1968, Jim Altanioxi 2014
Window in Helper Haven: view over the buildings
pastel on paper drawing 1995
I am 11.433 pieces of Lego
mixed photography 2022
Tim and Alex in the garden protected by their stuffed foxes
Photography 2022
Boy or not
Original photography 1969
Crucified at seven
Oil pastel/ ink 20 x 30 cm 2025
Boy-man
Identity mix of selfie (52 years old) and pastel drawing of a 10 year old boy, mix 2022
World map at ca 3.7 years old
( Groningen, Helper Haven, and environment)
pastel on paper 60 x 50 cm 1994
The Identity Restoration Studio
With Brian and Sander
2021-2024
Photography 2022
Institutional Blueprint (Helper Haven, Groningen 1965)
Mixed photography and pastel 1965/ 2024
Plural identity, installation
BFF#13 Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht 2022
Dinner (Helper Haven, Groningen.1965)
Original wasco oil pastels on paper 30 x 40 cm 1996
Actually, I'm a group of toddlers and two boys
Photography mix 2022
Stop 50 percent of all invisible violence
Adapted photography from poster UN, 2024
Frozen time
Mixed media photography (composition with oil painting/pencil drawing) 2016
Destroyed time 2020
pastel/ acrylic paint on paper 30 x 40 cm
World map at ca 2.7 years old
drawn from memory after 30 years
(Alexandrinalaan Apeldoorn, red square = home)
Pastel on paper 50 x 60 cm 1994
Becoming boy
Photography 2024
Prisoner of the Past
Pastel 2022
Composed selves
Processed photography 2022
Blurred view at 17
(see Jasper Heijting, "Gepleegd" 2020)
Photography 1979
Restoration of the boy of Highschool
Identity restoration studio 2023
Mother and child
Acrylic on paper 21 x 30 cm 1993
(second drawing)
Brian brings the epilator
Photography 2023
Mowgli tells me how to play
Photography 2023
Dysphoria XXL: Female for the boy
30 x 40 cm pastel 2022
Hidden desire
Composition of pastel and original Roman mosaic (ca 200 AD) 2024
Dissociative Life Movie
Composed images (2016 print)
Baby
Watercolor 1995 (destroyed in 2002)
Crea-therapy
Photography 2023
Building blocks of equal love are always red
mixed media 50 x 60 cm 2023
The destiny of a 'boy named Hue'
sketching 2021
Forever with us
Death of our twin identities Jimmy / H.S. Sterry *Spring 1994 - ^ October 2025
processed photograph 2025
Reversed Boy Pastel on paper 50 x 65 cm
From Identity restoration studio 2023
VICTORY OVER THE YOUTH CARE SYSTEM
In the Realm of Boys
Mixed media on paper 30 x 40 cm 2025
I am two boys, but never know which one is me
30 x 40 cm ink, oil pastels and pastel 2025
:
Where the state chose hatred, we choose
Love over fear
pastel 2024 50 x 65 cm
[Identity restoration studio, 2024]
