All living organisms, be it plants or animals, share in their genes the same structure that helps them adapt to the time of day. We all have “time” embedded on a molecular level of every cell. We carry our own time within us. The biological clock in our bodies

Since exactly four years I have a lot of time on my hands. This 1st of February four years ago we found a special care home for our multiple handicapped daughter. She is now 21 years of age. Her body functions as a body of a 7 month old baby and

  My artist husband and I share studio space, but have a “no-talking” rule during the day so that we can each concentrate. At 5 PM we stop for Happy Hour. In the summer we go to our porch or patio with a glass of wine and enjoy watching the

  Time is sometimes cruel. While making this quilt I tripped over some uneven footpath and broke my ankle and wrist. Luckily I had finished (I thought) this quilt as I was about to leave for a trip to Japan. So now I had more time to finish the quilt but not

When thinking about the concept of time one quickly come to think of clocks. And since I am Dutch I want to introduce you to a Dutch view on time and clocks.    Dutch artist Maarten Baas made a beautiful series of clocks. For our national airport Schiphol, he made a clock in which

According to Wikipedia, “A jökulhlaup (Icelandic pronunciation:  [ˈjœːkʏl̥øip]) (literally “glacial run”) is a type of glacial outburst flood.It is an Icelandic term that has been adopted in glaciological terminology in many languages. It originally referred to the well-known subglacial outburst floods from Vatnajökull, Iceland, which are triggered by geothermal heating and occasionally by a volcanic subglacial eruption, but it is now

  When we got our prompt “Water” from Sandra my first thoughts were about the oceans. They are in peril right now and so essential for life on earth.  I thought about the floating plastic in our oceans that kills marine wildlife and pollutes the environment of so many species.

We are drinking water every day. Most living things on the earth are difficult to survive without water.  However, the reality is that the industrial activities of humans are causing various kind of pollution. Among them, many people suffer from various diseases due to water pollution. I think this is

  Time Fragments #23 :Beach Daze  30.5″W x 40.5 ” H        The beach and accompanying water whether ocean, lake or pond, are always a part of my summers. And the last two years we have added trips to Florida in the depths of winter doldrums here in cloudy

 My friend and I walk in the morning in the wetlands. It is a world of water and the life that is drawn to the wetland. The beavers have returned and flooded our trails and changed the landscape, but we are undeterred and skirt the edges of new water and

  I am so impressed with the various approaches of each artist in Cloth in Common.  Seems we all have major concerns about water issues.  During the time I was working on my quilt, Hurricane Michael was threatening and then came crashing into the panhandle area of Florida, causing death

  Do you think the water has a shape? Sea, River, Waterfall, Waves?                                                                                      If we want to touch it. It will get out of between our fingers. The water doesn’t change at all, and just let the moment see through it.   I focused in the facetted beauty of