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Portraits of Portugal
• No Ice (08-2016)
• One Percent (09-2016)
• The Shadiest Place (10-2016)
• Because the train stopped here (11-2016)
• The joy of a yawning sense of sadness (12-2016)
• Driving without “ze scum-drill” (03-2017)
• No fake glitter, neither old nor new (04-2017)
• Blindness and Seeing (05-2017)
• Catching Up (05-2017)
• Matchboxes galore (09-2017)
• Liquid stone, smooth as velvet (11-2017)
• Hail to the chef (12-2017)
• A street called ‘Emancipation’ (02-2018)
• Proof is what we need (02-2018)
• After Hell and Purgatory, Paradise (05-2018)
• Back in time (06-2018)
• About walls (07-2018)
• Borderline (07-2018)
Blogs geschreven voor Portugal Portal
(een wekelijks verschijnende nieuwsbrief geredigeerd door Winy Schalke)
• Amerika en Portugal: de verschillen zijn enorm
• Over lang en kort geleden – over Nederland vs Portugal – en over rijk : arm
• Het genoegen van een knagende droefheid
• Lekker in de file in Porto
• De naaste buur
• Ziende blind
• Aaibare bruutheid
• Para Inglês Ver
• Zwartboek met lichtgrijze bladzijden
• De lucifers van Tomar
• De Douro, een geologisch gedicht
• Het rode gevaar
• Dan hoort iedereen het weer eens van een ander
• Een straat genoemd Emancipatie
• Statistiek, statistiek …
• Dorp aan de rivier
• Het is weer weer
• De bomen en het bos
• Brug der zuchten
• Terug in de tijd
• Grensverkering
• Hoge bomen drinken veel water
• Ooit een spookstad
• Juweeltjes van harmonie
• Kunst te kust en te keur
• Achilles & Co
• Niks geen nette man
• Barre tijden
• Portugees “noir”
• Over duivelse machines
• Trek maar aan de bel
• Ons Portugees “opstapje”
• Os biblias en ander erfgoed
• Het Lissabon
• Portugees zacht
• Twee vrouwen
• Een beetje onze aartsmoeder
• Het verleden heeft de toekomst
• Méér dan zaagsel
• Klein boekje over grote ramp
• Torres Novas, zomaar een Portugees stadje
• Geef mij maar Belém
• Woelwater
• Vlieg er eens uit
• Een gordel van kalkzandsteen
• Reiziger
• Op naar de 100
• Gevoel voor het doolhof
• Een andere kijk
• Os Lusíadas
• De stad van de 3 P’s
• Over ouder worden …. in Portugal
• De Portugese Robinson Crusoe – de echte
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Prairie Crabs
(mostly about life in contemporary America)
• Time and travel and a little sex (01-2015)
• Where 1 is less than zero (02-2015)
• An embarrassing, unsustainable farce (03-2015)
• The new N-word and Bubba-ville (03-2015)
• Impecunious Creativity is Money in the Bank (06-07-2015)
• Illusions of an Urban Utopia (12-2015)
• To the Land of the Laziest Pigeons in the World (02-2016)
Artists’ profiles
(written or edited, 2010-2016)
• Dale Hartley – Life Spirit’s Echoes
• Lisa Grossman – The Land of Sky – Lines of Sight
• Curtis Jones -‘ Boxes of Soap’
• Les Brandt – Wood turner
• Don Wolfe – The Key Element
• Matt Regier
• Laura Berman – Ex Astris
• Lee Shiney – Round and Round
• Gerco de Ruijter – Visions of Earth
• Stephen Perry – Etchings, linocuts, relief prints
• Richard Kooyman – Where Poetry Resides
• Judy van Heyst meets Jim Bass – Connections
• Anna Patricia Keller – Prairie’s Edge
• Dave Leiker – The Working Landscape
• Michael Edge & Toshi Miki – Separate Ways Together
• Gretchen & Gary Gackstatter – Sublime Stone and Sky
• Zak Barnes – The Rhythm of My Days
• Elaine Shea Jones –This Beautiful Place Called Home
• Bill McBride – Focusing on the Forms of Nature
• Julie Wagner – Earth Song
• Ann Resnick – The Richness of Life
• Mariana Escribano – Breaking Down ‘Home’
• Hilary Lorenz – In the Spirit
• April Flanders – Advance
• Shin-hee Chin – Emergence
• Eric and Erin Dodson – ‘Proximal Topologies’
• Bengt Erikson – ‘The Tiniest Moves’
Creative Creatures
(portraits of some of the fascinating people encountered)
• Annie Wilson, poet, musician; Elmdale, Kansas (05-2012)
• Karel Delfos, painter, watercolorist; Rijswijk, the Netherlands (05-2012)
• Chris Sievernich, film producer; Hollywood Hills, California (05-2012)
• Pleun Vos, graphic designer; Antwerp, Belgium (06-2012)
• Elaine Shea Jones, photographer, environmentalist; Matfield Green, Kansas (06-2012)
• Brian Bondy, multimedia artist; Abiquiu, New Mexico (07-2012)
• Bill McBride, sculptor, architect, naturalist; Matfield Green, Kansas (07-2012)
• Elizabeth Ayres, author, poet, creative writing teacher; California, Maryland (08-2012)
• Claudia & Andrew Sadler, ships carpenters; Groningen, the Netherlands (08-2012)
• Dr Madeline Williamson, music festival director, pianist; Abiquiu, New Mexico (08-2012)
• Mary Lance, filmmaker; Corrales, New Mexico (10-2012)
• William Least Heat-Moon, author; Columbia, Missouri (10-2012)
• Anna Patricia Keller, painter; Santa Fe, New Mexico (11-2012)
• Marcel Vroom, industrial designer; Rotterdam, the Netherlands (11-2012)
• Les Brandt, wood turner; Huntsville, Arkansas (12-2012)
• Tania Witte, novelist, journalist, performance artist; Berlin, Germany (11-2012)
• Ron Guijs, chef de cuisine; Ambroseli, Kenya (12-2012)
• Godfried Konings, graphic designer; Santa Fe, New Mexico (01-2013)
• Lisa Grossman, painter, printmaker; Lawrence, Kansas (02-2013)
• Joke Mammen, historian, curator, librarian; Amsterdam, the Netherlands (01-2013)
• Ajay Revels, design researcher; New York City, New York (12-2012)
• Susan Martin, PR and marketing, Los Angeles, California / Abiquiu, New Mexico (03-2013)
• Zak Barnes, painter; Lawrence, Kansas (04-2013)
• Anne Ausloos, earth artist; Antwerp, Belgium (04-2013)
• Dave Leiker, photographer; Emporia, Kansas (04-2013)
• Gerard Verdijk, painter, sculptor; Marcillac-St.Quentin, France (04-2013)
• Kate Kopischke, peacemaker; Salt Lake City, Utah (04-2013)
• Risk Hazekamp, visual artist; Berlin, Germany (04-2013)
• Hendrik van Leeuwen, painter, photographer, writer; The Hague, the Netherlands (05-2013)
• Kelly Barth, author; Lawrence, Kansas (05-2013)
• Julie Wagner, painter, sculptor, printmaker, bookmaker; El Rito, New Mexico (07-2013)
• Dr Jim Hoy, historian, educator, writer, rancher; Emporia, Kansas (08-2013)
• Janine Benyus, scientist, lecturer, writer; Stevensville, Montana (08-2013)
• Dr Ben Daitz, academician, GP, musician, filmmaker, novelist; Albuquerque, New Mexico (08-2013)
• Mizja Haak, graphic designer, color manager; Rijswijk, the Netherlands (08-2013)
• Gary Gackstatter, composer, conductor, performer, visual artist; St. Louis, Missouri (08-2013)
• Gerco de Ruijter, kite photographer; Rotterdam, the Netherlands (08-2013)
• Dr Wes Jackson, biologist, botanist, geneticist; Salina, Kansas (09-2013)
• Toshi Miki & Mike Edge; Monroe, Connecticut (09-2013)
• Jeroen van Westen, land architect, earth artist; Heeten, the Netherlands (08-2013)
• Carole Brown, musician, hermit; somewhere in the Flint Hills, Kansas (10-2013)
• Dr Elisabeth Holland, climate change scientist; Tuva, Fiji (12-2013)
• Cindy Hoedel, journalist; Matfield Green, Kansas (02-2014)
• Johannes Sveinsson Kjarval, visual artist; Reykjavik, Iceland (03-2014)
• William & Anais Yaeger, dreamers, humanitarians; Cottonwood Falls, Kansas (02-2014)
• Beth Ferguson, painter; Youngsville, New Mexico (02-2014)
• Maya Rispens, linguist; Voorburg, the Netherlands (02-2014)
• Terence Sellers, author, dominatrix; New York City, New York / Abiquiu, New Mexico (03-2014)
• Ton Haak, émigré; Matfield Green, Kansas (06-2014)
Ozgoodies
(tales of life in Kansas)
• The deadliest woman of the west (02-2010)
• Ridin’ on the knob of the North Pole (04-2010)
• Splendor in the grass (04-2010)
• The verve of nerve (06-2010)
• The urge and the lurch (06-2010)
• Boundless skies, strong roots (07-2010)
• A brooding immensity (09-2010)
• Carry a Nation (09-2010)
• She’s comin’ around the mountain (11-2010)
• They say that heaven is a free range (12-2010)
• Nomads of conscience (12-2010)
• Two great services to mankind (01-2011)
• Feeding the fires of revolution (01-2011)
• Shifting shadows (03-2011)
• On the road again (04-2011)
• The pursuit of happiness (06-2011)
• Dixie it ain’t (07-2011)
• Thinking big (08-2011)
• Tough on dirt (09-2011)
• A preface, halfway (10-2011)
• On the bright side of the dreamscape (10-2011)
• Prairie Hermitage (11-2011)
• A city of the plain (12-2011)
• New shades of green (01-2012)
• A sense of purpose (01-2012)
• This bloody creek (04-2012)
• With a song in my heart (04-2012)
Miscellaneous
Tributes
• I got the hell out of Dodge – Memories are made of this – Notes about America (2017)
• Tribute to a singular man – Godfried Konings, graphic designer (1964-2016) (2017)
• Ap Gewald neemt afscheid van zijn museum
Letters
• Lieve Mensen Brieven (100 extensive ‘letters to friends’, 1994-2009) [in Dutch]
Selected:
• Stars & Stripes Forever – Reisbelevenissen 1 to 8 (1998-2000) [in Dutch]
Published in ‘Amerika’ Magazine (in Dutch):
• Ideale musea, Campari soda en James Dean
• Hoofdstad van de 21ste eeuw
• Va va voom in Houston, Texas
• Huifkarren over de heuvelrug
• Ni modo langs de Mexicaanse grens
• Moord in Matfield Green
• Eden-by-the-Sea
• Een van die plekken
• ET en Marta Becket
• Skinwalker
• Tekens aan de wand
Poetry books
• Whims and Whispers, Pouts and Shouts (2001)
• Abitare Abiquiu. Backtracking, sidestepping, cutting across Northern New Mexico (2000-2002)
Selected poems:
• Home at last
• Under the volcano
• Daylight
• Badlands (I) (II) (III) and (IV)
• Moonbeam
Novels
• De Geschiedenislerares (1998-1999) [in Dutch]
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• The Vast Relief. A Few Nasty Wars Ago (1997-1998-2017)
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• The Fickle Finger of Fate (2017)
Artist books, catalogues
• Desert Passage (2009) [with Anne Ausloos, Gerco de Ruijter, Jeroen van Westen]
• Waterkader (2000) [for Jeroen van Westen, in Dutch]
• Point of Departure. Guide book to an augmented reality prairie/art tour in Chase County, Kansas [with Jeroen van Westen]
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• Karel Delfos (1994) [contribution, in Dutch]
• The Black Cat Territory. Fictions and frictions of inhabited space (2016-2017) [translations Dutch-English for Sarah Westphal art project/catalogue]
Original screenplays
(motion picture drama, 1998-2000)
• The Foolish and the Fast
• Rio Grande Tramway
• Little Versailles
• Standards of Proof
• Unholy Matrimony
• Tears Never Get You Nowhere
• Rumor Has It
• Three Pretty Women
• Timber Point
Adapted screenplays
• The Vast Relief [based on Ton Haak, ‘The Vast Relief. A Few Nasty Wars Ago’] (1997-1998-2017)
• Let’s Destroy Berlin [based on Maarten Cieremans, ‘De ene voet voor de andere’] (1998)