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Rhythmic Landscape
In the afternoon, Conny and I went to Rijksmuseum Twenthe to see some exhibitions. We first went to see the exhibition Seeing &
Believing: Sensory experience in the late Middle Ages.. Each room had his
own theme. In the room 'Smelling & Believing", we smelled the four smells:
Sulfur, incense, kroedwusj (a traditional bouquet of seven specific herbs or
plants, a custom rooted in the Limburg region of the Netherlands, particularly
tied to the Catholic feast of the Assumption of Mary celebrated on August
15th), and pomander. In
the 'Touching & Believing' room, we saw Master of the Glorification of
the Virgin, Annunciation: Mary. circa 1465-1475. In the 'Touching &
Believing' room, we saw Prayer Nut in the Shape of the Virgin Mary's Head, with the Carying of the
Cross and the Crucifixion, 16th century, with some incredible minature
sculpting.
At the Elsbeth Cochius exhibition, we saw the linocuts by Elsbeth Cochius. I found the following linocuts noteworthy:
- Story of the light, 2017.
- Tree Trunk, 2012.
- Poplars, 2012.
- Waiting for Protesters, 1984.
- Fortress Europe, 2010.
- Between Hope and Fear, 2011.
- Untitled, 2024.
- Hairroots, 2012.
- Pine Forest, 2024.
- Fracture Lines, 2008.
- Tangled - Roots, 2019.
- Tangled - Branches, 2019.
- Wind schermen, Three leporello's together with Pier van Dijk and
Gijs Dragt.
- Hogweed, 1999.
- Humans, Humans, 2002.
- Colony of Roots, 2002.
- Deer in the purple Moor-grass, 2010.
- Poppy Field, 1992.
- Feather of a Guneafowl Bird's Flight, 2024.
- Dance of Grass, 2001.
- Egg Diversity, 2004.
- Seed Pods, 2004.
- Beach Grass, 1998.
- Cranes, 2006.
- Ivy, 2020.
- Fein Forest, 2023.
- Hanami Matsuri, 2010.
- Reed, 1998.
- Witteveen (peatland near Enschede), 2015.
- Fly, 2002.
- Swamp Forest, 2017.
- Birch Forest, 2005.
- Oak Forest, 2023.
- Douglas Firs, 2005.
- Curved Birches, 2007.
- Horsetails, 1999.
- Food plains, 2009.
- Smartweed, 2024.
I watched the short documentary about her and her way of working. I took some
close-up pictures of Oak Forest because of the intrigated details in the
linocut that not visible from a distance. We found this exhibition to the best
of what we saw today.
Next, we walked through the treasury rooms. I found the following works (of
which most I already have seen) noteworthy:
- Falaises près de Pourville, 1882, Claud Monet.
- A Flock of Sheep with a Shepherd, Willem Sleelink jr., first half 19th century.
- Girl in White Kimono, George Hendrik Breitner, circa 1895.
- Sitting Nude (Eva), Jan Sluijters, undated.
- Jonge vrouw in roze blouse, Jan Sluijters, undated.
- Thank you for hurting me, I really needed that..., melanie bonajo, 2005.
Finally, we saw the exhibition Me, the other & the earth, the new
collection presentation. I found the following works noteworthy:
- Orwell Yellow White II, Jenny Holzer.
- From Steve Bannon: A Propaganda Retrospective: Model by Jonas Staal:
- Grundriss New Babylon über Den Haag, Constant.
- The Fabric of Humankind, Carlijn Kingma.
- New, New Babylon: Study of a Crisis-Utopia, Jonas Staal.
- Paris,
Carlotte Schleiffert, 2012.
- Night Soil - Noctural Gardening, melanie bonajo.
- The Standard Bearer, Nour-Eddine Jarram, 2021.
- A tribute to the dead, Nour-Eddine Jarram, 2020.
- Venus kissed by Amor, Adraen van der Werff, 1700-1725.
- Half-nude (painter's wife), Jan Sluijters, circa 1912.
- 69 Poses, Elsbeth Cochius, 2003.
- Half-nude, Aat Veldhoem,
1964.
- Lotje, Aat Veldhoem, 1964.
- Nude, Aat Veldhoem, undated.
- Standing nude with raissed leg, Lucebert, 1948.
- untitled (3×), L.A. Raeven, 2013.
- Grizzly bear on Jonas Pass, Rocky Mountains, Canada, Carl Rungius, undated.
- Hunters in snow Landscape, Richard Friese, undated.
- Pair of mallards at a wake, Bruno Liljefors, 1919.
- Heavenly Blue, Elsperth Diederx, 2022.
At 15:37, I bought the exhibition catalogue Elsbeth Cochius written in
Dutch by Ingrid Blans, Sipke Huisman, Jet van der Sluis, and Margót
Velduizen, edited by Josien Beltman and Elsbeth Cochius, and published by
Rijksmuseum Twenthe on Monday, February 17, 2025,
ISBN:9789462626126, for € 24.95.
Book
At 17:16:28, I bought the book Graduation 2015, edited by Thomas Widdershoven, written in English and published by Design Academy Eindhoven in 2015, ISBN:9789491400230, from Rataplan for
€ 3.20.
This evening, around half past six, I biked to the bridge over the expressway
near our home, to see if I could spot the planet Mercury, which should be visible almost straight below
the planet Venus. There were
a lot of contrails in the sky and there also seemed to be some thin clouds at
the horizon. I had already given up the hope to spot Mercury but decided to
wait till seven. At about five to seven, I suddenly spotted a very small light
in the sky and concluded that it must be Mercury. I took some pictures, but
they did not turn out very well. Below is a small area of one of the pictures,
which clearly shows the motion blur. This is the first time in my life that I
saw the planet Mercury with my own eyes.
Mercury (2)
This evening, I went outside with a tripod and took some pictures just from
the street near our home. I did not use the self-timer, so, most of the
pictures do have some motion blur. The last (and best, in my opinion) picture
is shown below.
19.0° Celsius
The temperature at Twenthe Airport has gone up to
19.0° Celsius, which breaks the previous record of 16.7° on this date
in 1991 by 2.3°. This is the first weather record of 2025.
19.4° Celsius
The temperature at Twenthe Airport has gone up to
19.4° Celsius, which breaks the previous record of 16.0° on this date
in 2014 by 3.4°. This is the second weather record of 2025.
Going into the city
I biked into the city without a coat. Although it was less warm than yesterday,
the temperature went up to 18.0°C (not breaking any record). At 14:27, I
stopped at a street tile in remembrance of the boundary marker stone Steen bij de Janninksbleek that was placed along the markes Esmarke and Usselo. The road Dennenweg is this border. The road
has been since at least 1850. I had searched for this tile before but at the
wrong side of the road. At 15:01, I bought the book Een nieuwe tijd
written by Toon
Tellegen with illustrations by Rauser, René Knip, Hans Muller, David Benqué, Vittorio
Roerade, Paul Faassen, Elspeth Diederix, Harmen
Liemburg, and Lava, written in Dutch and
translations in English, and published by Grafisch Nederland on Thursday,
February 1, 2008, ISBN:9789070809065, from Het Goed for
€ 7.50. At Tetem Art Space, I saw
the exhibition Reality Blinking by
en Ho Bin and Santiago Colombo Migliorero. I watched the short film Ep.8 Reality Sandwich: Reality Blinking that they made together. At 15:39,
I bought a multigrain triangular bread roll, decorated with sesameseed and
linseed for € 1.09 at the SPAR franchise shop in the city center. At Concordia I saw the exhbition
Doublet #7: In the sense of scenery with works of the two artists
Alexandra Leykauf and Sara Rajaei. From Sara
Rajaei the following videos were on display:
From Alexandra
Leykauf the following works were on display:
- Drie stenen 1, wooden construction with digital print, 2025.
- All together now, vidoe, 2022.
- Ritual Residue, cupboard doors with sill print, 2024.
- Window shopping, ongoing series starting 2021.
- Drie stenen II, wooden construction with digital print, 2025.
At 16:26:56, I bought the book Hier mijn hand en dáár je wang:
wat intieme correspondentie, correspondence between Heere Heeresma and Laurie Langenbach in Dutch and published by Peter Loeb
in 1978, ISBN:9789062130467, from bookshop Broekhuis
for € 6.75.
ESP32-S3: Measuring intervals
If you want to use the ESP32-S3 to measure the
interval between events on two GPIO ports this is possible with the use of
the Motor Control PWM (MCPWM), except of course, if you are not using it to
control a motor. It is a bit tricky, if I understand it correctly. The MCPWM
has three timers. These are 16 bit timers that have a prescaler. I understand
that the prescaler is a divider for the APB clock. But this actually not
relevant. The first timer, which is called TIMER0, can be synchronized on
signal 160 (as mentioned in Table 6-2), where the input signal is called
pwm0_sync0_in and the output signal is called pwm0_out0a.
The synchronization is enabled through the value of the MCPWM_TIMER0_SYNC_REG.
I presume that the field MCPWM_TIMER0_SYNCO_SEL has to be set to 0 (the
default value) to generate the output signal 'sync_out'. The MCPWM also has
three 32-bits capture timers, which can be incremented on the APB clock and
syncronized on one of the timers 'sync_out', which I presume, for timer0, is
the signal 160. On the synchronization the value of the timer is set to the
value of the MCPWM_CAP_TIMER_PHASE_REG register. With the one capture timer,
there are three capture channels. The first capture channel, is connected to
signal 166 of which the input signal is called pwm0_cap0_in. You can
select whether you want to capture on the falling or rising edge. I understand
that a capture trigger, the current value of the capture timer will be stored
in capture register, which for capture channel 0 is MCPWM_CAP_CH0_REG. I
presume that this happens everytime when the trigger event happens (taking into
account the prescaler). I presume that TIMER0 also need to be started. Take
note that some of the settings require an update bit to be set in the
MCPWM_UPDATE_CFG_REG before they become effective.
ESP32-S3: Measuring intervals (2)
Yesterday, I wrote something about how to measure
intervals using the ESP32-S3. It seems that it
is possible to synchronize the capture timer without using a timer, like the
TIMER0 I mentioned. In the description of the MCPWM_CAP_SYNCI_SEL field of the
MCPWM_CAP_TIMER_CFG_REG register it states that the value 4 selects 'SYNC0 from
GPIO matrix', which seems to stand for the pwm0_sync0_in signal. The
low-level functions are found in the file mcpwm_ll.h of the specific
ESP32 variant. The function mcpwm_ll_capture_set_gpio_sync can be
used to set the field in the register. This function is called by the function
mcpwm_capture_timer_set_phase_on_sync in the mcpwm_cap.c
file. More information about how to call this function and other function to
set up the capture timer, see MCPWM Capture Timer and Channels and MCPWM Sync Sources in the ESP-IDF documentation.
Carte Blanche
At 20:43, on my way to the artist collective B93, I stopped to look at a street tile in remembrance
of the boundary marker stone Bröäkersteen that was placed along the markes Esmarke and Usselo. At B93, I saw the exhibitions Asian Artist for Sale by Ho Bin Kim and Like a giant gumball by Santiago Colombo Migliorero. Upstair was the installation of Ho Bin Kim
consisting of a 'stall' filled and surrounded by objects and boxes from Asia.
Downstairs was the exhibition of Santiago Colombo Migliorero, which consisted
of several moving contraptions, like a little bike running circles on the
floor or a moving finger. He also had a collection of soils from various
places. Even some he brought from Spain. There also was a circle of pottery
shards.
Battlegrounds
After work, I went to see the exhibition
Battlegrounds with paints by Ayşen Kaptanoğlu at Villa de Bank. Interesting paintings.
Amsterdam
I went to Amsterdam. I took the metro to De Pijp and visited the bookshop
Het Martyrium. It looks like the renovation
that it finished. There is a lot of room in the shop, but whereas before they
had a lot of bargains, now there are just a few. I did not stay long and
went to Stedelijk Museum. There I saw several exhibition. The first exhibition I saw was Sleeping Guards with works by Selma Selman. I saw the following works:
- Motherboards, 2025.
- Sleeping Guards (series of small drawings), 2025.
- Sleeping Guards (series of large drawings), 2025.
- Crossing the Blue Bridge (film), 2024.
- Flowers of Life, 2024.
I walked through the exhibition Oltre Terra by FormaFantasma, but did not think much of it. Next I saw I Hear You, I Hear You by Nota Turato. From the collection, I found the following works noteworthy:
- Vegetable Gardens on Montmartre, Vincent van Gogh, 1887.
- Windmill, Piet Mondriaan, 1887.
- Self-Portrait, Elena Guro, circa 1917.
- Self-Portrait with Hat and Veil, Charley Toorop, 1938.
- Seated Woman, Lei Gestel, 1912.
- Girl, Three-Quarter Figure, John Rädecher, 1920-1924.
- Composition No. IV, with Red, Blue, and Yellow, Piet Mondriaan, 1929.
- Counter-Composition V, Piet Mondriaan, 1924.
- Lozenge Composition with Two Lines, Piet Mondriaan, 1931.
- Markov's Window, Harmen van den Dorpel, 2018.
- Composition in Red, Black, and White, Marlow Moss, 1953.
- Rythme, Nicolaas Warb, 1939.
- Composition, Bart van der Leck, 1918-1920.
- Landscape with Trees, Elena Guro, circa 1910.
- Spring, The Actress Stella van de Wiele, Frits van den Berghe, 1915.
- The Red Kimono, George Hendrik Breitner, circa 1893-1894.
- Jan Toorop, Jeanne Bierunma Oosting, 1923-1924.
- Self-Portrait, Anneke van de Feer, 1938.
- Working Class Woman, Charley Toorop, 1943.
- Birds, Constant, 1948.
I saw the exhibition POST/NO/BILLS #5: BHLNTTTX by Hezin
O. I experienced Manifestation #54 Shifting | Spirit | Time (three-channel video on
loop, 5.1 audio, 7 minutes 41 seconds) by julianknxx and studioknxx from 2025. It was kind of meditative and it reminded me of
mantra singing. This was really the high light of the visit to the museum.
From the exhibition Circulate – Photography Beyond Frames, I found the following
works noteworthy:
- Patterns of Activation (Deers Kissing, Vision Mode), Katja Noviskova, 2023.
- Flash, Bruno Zhy, 2024.
- You Can't Automate Me (video), Katarina Jazbec, 2021.
- ProtoVise: Shaping IDs, Swapping Worlds, Kévin Bray, 2024.
- Nailys, Gilleam Trapenberg, 2024.
More from the collection:
- Ohne Title (krebber), Cosima von Bonin, 1990.
- Untitled, Steffani Jemison, 2019.
- Pimba AGIDA KAA II, Remy Jungerman, 2020.
- Nama stap, Igshaan Adams, 2023.
- Inhanyamba, Buhlebezwe Siwami, 2021.
- The Manganese Violet Shoe, Somaya Critchlow, 2021.
- Between the Bars, Somaya Critchlow, 2021.
- Emigre Fonts - Type Specimens 1986-2016 (book), Rudy Vanderlands and Zuzane Licko, 2016.
- Untitled, Etel Adnan, 2018.
- The Mother of David and Goliath, Mounira Al Solh, 2019.
- Munganyenda, Iris Kensmil, 2021.
- The Neighbour, Marlene Dumas, 2005.
- Buurtje te Brussel, Jan Th. Kruseman, data unknown.
- Untitled, Nan Hoover, 1958.
- Parallel Encyclopedia, Batia Suten, 2006.
- Semiotics of the Kitchen, Martha Rosler, 1975.
- Blue/Green Spots on Red, Gerhard von Graevenitz, 1965.
- no title, Seemon & Marijke, 1967.
- no title, Seemon & Marijke, 1968.
- prints font design, Wim Crouwel.
- film print of New Alphabet font, Wim Crouwel.
- Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful, Marina Abramović, 1975-1976.
- Field, Günther Uecker, 1974.
- Aggregation: One Thousand Boats Show, Yoyoi Kusama, 1963.
- Footsteps on Mulberry Tree Tops, Giuseppe Penone, 2000.
- Twenty-Third Steel Cardinal, Carl Andre, 1974.
Next, I brought a visit to bookshop De Slegte
and The American Book Center where I bought a small, white dodecaherdon, which I found in a basket of dices. It did not have any
marks on it, so, it was not a dice.
From there I walked to gallery andriesse
& eyck to attend the opening of the exhibition BLING BLING with works by Carel Blotkamp he made in the past 25 years. Most of his works are based
on well know art works, which he recreates with sequins. I found some of the
works quite impressive. At the moment there is also an exhibition, called
Bling, at Centraal Museum. Afterwards, I also paid a short visit to bookshop Scheltema.
A day in the Meadows
This evening, I went to visit the exhibition
'A day in the Meadows' at Tankstation with works by the artist mentioned in the
COWMAG zines: Beginning #0,
Belonging #1, and Becoming #2. The exhibition was curated by
Sietse Henselmans and
Marsha van Leersum.
From the exhibition, I found the following works noteworthy:
- Safe With Me, Kali Paxton, 2024.
- Acidic Mutations (model: Anna Kimp) (five photo prints),
Sanne Wijdenes (Hartenjager), 2025.
- Mourning of the Hypocritic (diptych), Katerina Varella, 2025.
- I may be Irrationally Afraid of a Certain Amount of Weeks, Forty to
be Exact, Myrthe Kingma, 2024.
- Inhabiting Discomfort (installation with 15 scales), Laithal Rahmani, 2024.
- The Sun is Gone, Sep Friesema, 2024.
- Why Not Imagine Something Else?, Celine Micheli, 2023.
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