Stigma by Design: Aftermath of State care and foster care
489- 540
[Project on prints]
The 13 additional photographs in this project ground the artwork in reality, serving as raw evidence of a lived truth. The project consists of original 30 x 40 cm color prints on watercolor 300grms paper.
© Jimmy Groen
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Deported from home:
Blueprint in the baby ward
(Photography Helper Haven, Groningen 1964-1965)
My home III (1965)
pastel drawing from memory created in 1996
Self portrait
Acrylic on paper 1992
(my first drawing ever)
At kindergarten
photography 1967
The opposite gender of man was never woman
Composed objects 2016
My name is Jimmy, Rebirth as 7 -year old
Self -portrait
pastel and mixed media 2004
Still safe together
photography 2025
Mama and papa
43 x 56 cm original Pastel on paper 2023
Jimmy and his mother
photography 1989
Helper Haven Groningen- Toddler group and three boys 1965
pastel Jim A 1998
The doors of the baby ward in Helper Haven
pastel 1996
Tim and Alex with their own baby
Photography 2025
The Saint of the children's home
Pastel on paper 1997
Actually I am a group of toddlers and two boys
mixed photography 2024
Never leave the group
Microscopic photography 2022
Original Photography 1994
Destructive turbulence
Mixed digital media with photography 1968, Jim Altanioxi 2014
Window in Helper Haven - toddler sleeping ward
pastel on paper drawing 1995
I am 11.433 pieces of Lego
mixed photography 2022
Tim, and Alex in the garden
Photography 2022
Suicidal boy (7)
Original photography 1969
My Mother in Mother nature
(Bimbam), photography 2024
Boy-man
[age- dysphoria]
Identity mix of selfie (52 years old) and pastel drawing of a 10 year old boy 2022
World map at 3.7 years old
drawn from memory after 29 years
(From: Groningen Haydnlaan 6, Helper Haven,
=the red buildings)
pastel on paper 60 x 50 cm 1994
Identity restoration studio
2021-2023
Photography 2022
Institutional Blueprint (Helper Haven, Groningen 1965)
Mixed photography and pastel 1965/ 2024
Plural identity, installation
BFF#13 Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht 2022
Still love you - H.H .1965)
pastel on paper 30 x 40 cm 1996
Life in an underground hut, hidden in the forest (1987)
Photography 1987
Stop 50 percent of all invisible violence
Adapted photography from poster UN, 2024
The foster mother, who severely abused three foster children, was honored in 1995 with the State Golden Medal in the Order of Orange- Nassau .(Source Digibron: "Goud, Woudenberg")
Frozen time
Mixed media photography (composition with oil painting/pencil drawing) 2016
World map at 2.7 years old
drawn from memory after 30 years
(Alexandrinalaan Apeldoorn, red = home)
Pastel on paper 50 x 60 cm 1994
Destroyed time
pastel on paper 30 x 40 cm
Turn yourself into a boy -child
Photography 2022
Prisoner of the Past
Pastel 2022
Hidden selves
Processed photography 2022
One week before I became their 'animal'
(see "Jasper Heijting, Gepleegd" 2020)
Photography Ibiza 1979
Every day a trigger
Mixed media and processed image 2023
Gender instruction (for the boygender)
photography 2025
State -Imposed -Caterpillar -Sexuality
Collage 2023
Equal identities: Tim, Jimmy and Alex
Photography 2025
Brian brings the epilator
Photography 2023
Thank you for playing with me, Mowgli
Photography 2023
Gender dysphoria XL: female for the boy- child
pastel 2022
Hidden desire
pastel and original Roman mosaic (ca 200 AD) 2024
created at Art academy Tongeren
Dissociative Life Movie
Composed images 2020
A baby of 1965
Watercolor 1995
Creativity is the best therapy
Building blocks of equal love
The destiny of a 'boy named Hue'
sketching 2021
Thank you for all you did for me
The death and lost of a twin co- identity (Father Jimmy/ H.S. Sterry 1994-2025)
processed photograph 2025
Victory...
I am two boys
(but I never know which one is me)
Composed processed photography 2024
63 x 40 cm
The soft touch of love
pastel 2024 50 x 65 cm
[1} "Peer-only Attachment" and identity erasure
The government created an environment in the 60's and 70's in which children could not form a healthy attachment. When those children grow up and the scars of that isolation and that show physical torture in their identity, the government uses those same scars as evidence that these people are "bad or evil." This is a psychopathic circular reasoning: to break someone first and then punish the victim for being broken.
This archive shows that the "problem" of the victim (of youth care) is actually the "signature" of the perpetrator (the government).