GRID paintings: UAU/YOE/TOE/OUO/HOOH

UAU / 160 X 180 cm / acrylic on canvas / 2006 / installation view in Groothandelsgebouw ‘Chaos en orde’ 2006, at Rijnstate Hospital and in the studio in Amsterdam (photo Alexandra Rouppe van der Voort) / HOOH, OUO, TUUT, 18 x 24 cm (each)

UAU (2006) kind of looks like a totem pole, by which the vowels are balancing on each side. It's like having a long nose to the world of commerce and advertising selling hot air. Almost all of the paintings in the series have a metropolitan atmosphere of heavy traffic and pedestrian bustle, a jumble of noises in which words dissolve into cacophony.

HUH #111206 / 45 x 50 cm / acrylic on linen / 2006 / photo Kato Tan
UAU / 160 X 180 cm / acrylic on canvas / 2006
HOOH / 18 x 24 cm/ acrylic on linen / 2007
OUO / 18 x 24 cm / acrylic on linen /2007
TUUT / 18 x 24 cm/ acrylic on linen/ 2007
ZOZ / 160 x 180 cm / acrylic on linen / 2004
TOE* / 80 x 90 cm / acrylic on linen / 2004 (private collection)
WOE / 80 x 90 cm / acrylic on linen / 2005
YOE / 80 x 90 cm / acrylic on linen / 2005
AIOU* / 40 X 45 cm / acrylic on canvas / 2005 (private collection)