Trauma art#5: Trauma Art and the Body               163- 185

The erasure and suppression by institutions like youth care and the police system especially targeted the body as means of psychological warfare. For the foster parents the body of a boy is the ultimate sin. The Dutch police told me a male adult body should be killed  because and nobodybin society cares  about  killing men. 

 

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Dutch Diversity?

Blue arch

Blue moon

Who is afraid of red?

167.  "Symbols of Love

pastel on cardboard 70 x 100 cm

With Bimbam, Pietertje and Dombo (with help of  Alex)

Hero of the school 

Gender balance 

Happy with blue balls

That girl with her jumping rope is so funny 

Every dot is love

 

 

I am

Gender divided by three is seven

Upside Down Gender

176. Emasculated gæsten

Collage 50 x 65 cm  2022

A Candle 

Wrong 

Body Ghosts 

 

Victory over foster care

I used my 63-year-old body as a canvas to reconstruct and reclaim  the true self as a boy.  Pastel and ink on paper 2025 30 x 40 cm

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2025

2024 TURN YOURSELF INTO A BOY 

Pastel on paper  20 x 30 cm 2022

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