“I bought this property in 1400 of the Rode Crotch. Ambulances were located on the ground floor and first aid courses were given on the first floor. Now I have my own theater here,” says Dick, who works as a dentist two days a week. “The other days I make art and do many other things, such as administering corona vaccinations at the GGD.”
Drums and surf
“During the corona pandemic, my son Jip came to live here. He is at the conservatory and can play drums here undisturbed – I built a soundproof drum room for him together with Jip – and also surf. Things that are a bit more difficult in Amsterdam, where he used to live.”
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Waste
In 2010 Dick graduated from the KABK. “A lot of my work is made from waste, such as the caps that you also see in Jip’s drum room. I am now working on a website to get out more with my art.”
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Tabletops
“A little further down here I had until 2001 restaurant Watertanden together with a friend from the art academy. Those puzzle pieces on the wall are the original table tops from the restaurant.”
Jip usually sits in the corner on that couch and Dick prefers to sit at the table. “I’m always busy with something. When I’m chilling, something isn’t right.”
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Paul van Vliet Academy
Where ambulances once stood, Dick has created a theater with a piano and benches from a bankrupt restaurant . Dick: “To do something about my pathological shyness, I attended the Paul van Vliet Academy, although I found it terrifying. Here I would practice with the audience glued to the wall, such a 1400 to 1400 headlines – the idea was to make a kind of sold-out Carré. And that has worked. Now you could even let me read the news.”
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