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Misja van Laatum Art

  • Portfolio
    • Assemblage
    • Light Objects
    • Mixed Media
    • Drawings & paintings
    • Illustrations
    • Collage
  • About
    • Artist statement
    • Resume
    • Past exhibitions
    • Blog posts
  • More
    • Contact
    • Privacy
    • Terms and Conditions

In the year 2000 I visited Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. These are some magical places to visit and I picked up quite a few interesting items. One of them was a talisman, more specifically a Herradura Santa Muerte (read some more about it on the internet ). I never actually […]

Pakje Kunst

Portable Devotion – handheld belief

Published 21 July 2021

It’s very fascinating and a little scary when other people talk about your work. What do they see? What direction does the work take them in?There’s a YouTube playlist on the “Pakje Kunst” channel. It is called “Meneer Visser kijkt naar kunst” and it reviews tiny works sent in to […]

Pakje Kunst

Strangers talking

Published 30 August 2020

Board games – actually all games – have always had a strong fascination to me. Part of it must be their inherent symbolism: codified conflict, trade and cooperation in a wild variety of themes and styles. We have been playing them for at least 5000 years (personally I suspect a […]

Pakje Kunst

Your Turn – making imaginary board games

Published 16 August 2020

In the late 1980s (you know; the before time) I was a member of an art collective. We called it “Chaos in Motion” (and yes, that was based on the lyrics to this song. We listened to A LOT of Dead Can Dance in those days). Chaos in Motion was […]

History

That time I was in a collective

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Published 9 May 2020

In these troubled times, when “on line” is usually the only way to safely communicate, I got an interview on the Brooklyn Art Library website (you know them; they do the “Sketchbook Project”).It’s very surreal to see pictures of your face and studio on a website.Some of the pictures are […]

News

Brooklyn Art Library – interview

Published 2 April 2020

So it’s been a long time coming and a lot of work really, but here it is: my fresh new “art” website (the more client focused, digital work can be found at miez.nl). Most of the content is here: some 90+ artworks in my portfolio, an artist statement and ways […]

Update

All new website

Published 13 January 2020

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