| Under the tree lies | |
| a cow struck by lightning, it -- | |
| is raining on her. | |
| Onder de boom ligt | Am Baum liegt eine |
| een doodgebliksemde koe -- | vom Blitz getroffene Kuh -- |
| Het regent op haar. | Es regnet auf sie. |
Amsterdam, 2026-05-21
Autumn (Karl Ove Knausgård) - 2015
Autobiographical novel "Om høsten", part 1, chapter 'September', § 'Lightning' - Glemmingebro (near Ystad)
Collection: Writing
Tribute to: Knausgård, Karl Ove
| In the afternoon | |
| Grandpa goes to the stable -- | |
| and sings the cows in. | |
| Opa gaat 's middags | Am Nachmittag geht |
| bij de stal staan, dan zingt hij -- | Opa zum Stall, dann singt er -- |
| de koeien erin. | die Kühe herein. |
Amsterdam, 2026-02-22
My struggle 3. Boyhood Island (Karl Ove Knausgård) - 2009
Autobiographical novel "Min Kamp. Tredje bok", part 4 - Summer vacation 1976, Sørbøvågen (north of Bergen) - Staying with fathers' parents
Collection: Leaving
Tribute to: Knausgård, Karl Ove
| As a child, I milked | |
| cows with Harry Outerwoods -- | |
| Who remembers him? | |
| Koeien melken met | Kühe melken mit |
| Harrie van de Oetelaar -- | dem Harry... Wer erinnert -- |
| Ach, wie kent hem nog? | sich noch, wer er war? |
Amsterdam, 2025-07-11
Dory was 12 years old at the time - Harrie van de Oetelaar (Harry Outerwoods)
Collection: Greeting from before
Dedicated to: Dory dK
| The cow has big ears, | |
| and I have two ponytails; | |
| of course they are deaf. | |
| De koe heeft grote | Die Kuh hat große |
| oren, ik heb twee paarden- | Ohren, ich habe Pferde- |
| staarten; die zijn doof. | schwänze; sie sind taub. |
Amsterdam, 2025-06-16
With a photo of Madelief and a cow (September 5th, 2004, Wolhusen)
Collection: The climbing house
Dedicated to: Madelief dK
| To be a guest of | |
| heavyweights, on the highlands -- | |
| of milk and honey. | |
| Bij zwaargewichten | Bei Schwergewichten |
| te gast zijn, in het hoogland -- | zu Gast, auf dem Hochland, wo -- |
| van melk en honing. | Milch und Honig fließt. |
Amsterdam, 2025-05-30
With a photo of Dory on a path with Swiss cows (May 9th, 2010, Wirsweli) - 'Swiss' are brown cattle (10 times Dory's body weight)
Exodus 3:8 'to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites'
Numbers 14:7-8 'The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land, a land which floweth with milk and honey'
Collection: web tissue
Dedicated to: Lotte W, Madelief dK, Dory dK
| The rolling hills are | |
| silent without cowbells, not -- | |
| yet a building site. | |
| Zonder koebellen | Ohne Kuhglocken |
| is het glooiende land stil -- | ist das Hügelland still, noch -- |
| nog geen bouwterrein. | kein Baugelände. |
Amsterdam, 2025-04-21
With a photo of the hills behind Lotte's house on the Swiss Plateau (Schweizer Mittelland)
Collection: Changing Times
Dedicated to: Lotte W
| Shifting colour shades | |
| are searching for harmonies -- | |
| Cowbells are ringing. | |
| Kleurschakeringen | Farbschattierungen |
| zoeken naar harmonieën -- | suchen nach Harmonien -- |
| De koeien bellen. | Kuhglocken läuten. |
Amsterdam, 2024-05-29
The Spectral Organ (Maria W. Horn & Mats Erlandsson) - 2024
Readapted versions performed on the Van Straten organ by Maria W. Horn and Mats Erlandsson in the Organpark on May 29th, 2024; light scenography by Zalán Szakács
Collection: org anp ARK
Composers: Horn, Maria W; Erlandsson, Mats
| A cow is a cow, | |
| anywhere in the world she -- | |
| looks at you deeply. | |
| Een koe is een koe, | Kühe sind Kühe, |
| waar ook ter wereld kijkt ze -- | überall betrachten sie -- |
| je diepzinnig aan. | dich sehr tiefsinnig. |
Amsterdam, 2024-01-29
Outside, it's Monday (J. Bernlef) - 2003
Novel "Buiten is het maandag", § 5-1
Collection: SoulSenseSun
Tribute to: Bernlef, J.
| The oxen: marching, | |
| heavily armoured they are -- | |
| stomping on like knights. | |
| De ossen rukken | Die Ochsen rücken |
| op, zwaar geharnast stampen -- | auf, gepanzert stampfen sie -- |
| ze als ridders voort. | wie Ritter vorwärts. |
Amsterdam, 2024-01-21
Cattle / The Oxcart (Modest Mussorgski) - 1874
Composition "Pictures at an Exhibition", in an arrangement (2023) by Marc Kaptijn performed in the Organpark by the Amsterdam Wind Quintet and Maarten van der Bijl (organ) on January 21st, 2024
Collection: org ANP ark
Composer: Mussorgski, Modest
| Plastered with the post- | |
| er: Cars Have the Right of Way -- | |
| the cow blocks the road. | |
| Beplakt met het plak- | Beklebt mit dem An- |
| aat: Auto's Hebben Voorrang -- | schlag: Autos Haben Vorfahrt -- |
| loopt de koe op straat. | ist die Kuh im Weg. |
Amsterdam, 2023-12-25
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie) - 1981
Novel, chapter 2-14 "Jamila Singer"
Bharat, the country of the sacred cow
Collection: Shadows
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman
| The cow, chunk of heat | |
| chewing next to me, raises -- | |
| her tail and splashes. | |
| De koe is een bonk | Der Hitzeklumpen |
| warmte, kauwend naast mij heft -- | der Kuh kaut neben mir, hebt -- |
| ze haar staart, klatert. | den Schwanz und plätschert. |
Amsterdam, 2023-08-24
Everything flows (Marc Tritsmans) - 2021
Poem "Alles stroomt", in Het Liegend Konijn (2021, no. 2) and in the collection "Terwijl wij nog slapen" (2023)
Collection: SoulSenseSun
Tribute to: Tritsmans, Marc
|
He sniffs, grazing |
Amsterdam, 2022-10-09
Collection: Without reserve
| Like a precious stone | |
| in the landscape of her skin: | |
| the eye of the cow. | |
| Als een edelsteen | Wie ein Edelstein |
| in het landschap van haar huid: | in der Landschaft ihrer Haut: |
| het oog van de koe. | das Auge der Kuh. |
Amsterdam, 2022-10-08
Cow - III (Rutger Kopland) - 2008
Poem "Koe" - III (collection "Toen ik dit zag")
Collection: Moist glow
Tribute to: Kopland, Rutger
| The cow looks beyond, | |
| maybe at the evening light -- | |
| mirrored in her eye. | |
| De koe kijkt voorbij, | Letzte Abendlicht, |
| misschien naar het avondlicht -- | die Kuh schaut hin, es leuchtet -- |
| weerkaatst in haar oog. | in ihrem Auge. |
Amsterdam, 2022-10-08
Cow - IV (Rutger Kopland) - 2008
Poem "Koe" - IV (collection "Toen ik dit zag")
Collection: Moist glow
Tribute to: Kopland, Rutger
| I suspect a cow | |
| in the meadow at night, there -- | |
| the black spots that move. | |
| Ik vermoed een koe | Kuh, vermute ich, |
| in de wei 's avonds laat, daar -- | abends in der Wiese, dort -- |
| die zwarte vlekken. | die schwarzen Flecken. |
Amsterdam, 2022-10-08
Cow - VI (Rutger Kopland) - 2008
Poem "Koe" - VI (collection "Toen ik dit zag")
Collection: Moist glow
Tribute to: Kopland, Rutger
| The cows float about, | |
| bobbing in the green, pissing -- | |
| they hoist their tail sails. | |
| In het groen golven | Wallend im Grünen |
| koeien, pissend steken ze -- | erheben Kühe pissend -- |
| hun staartzeilen op. | ihre Schwanzsegel. |
Amsterdam, 2022-02-13
Sea of the cows (Rodaan al Galidi) - 2000
Poem "Zee der koeien" (collections "Voor de nachtegaal in het ei" and "De fiets, de vrouw en de liefde")
Collection: SoulSenseSun
Tribute to: Al Galidi, Rodaan
|
His black eye looks back |
Amsterdam, 2022-02-13
Collection: Lilith's Powers
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk
| Discontent: standing | |
| like a cow in driving rain -- | |
| your ass to the wind. | |
| Onmin: als een koe | Unmut: wie eine |
| in striemende regen staan -- | Kuh im strömenden Regen -- |
| je kont naar de wind. | dein Arsch in den Wind. |
Train Amsterdam-Den Haag, 2018-06-19
A Frisian does not cry (Gerrit Krol) - 1980
Novel "Een Fries huilt niet", chapter 6.5
Collection: Lilith's Powers
Tribute to: Krol, Gerrit
Hill (cows)
Ufhusen, 2017-08-23
Collection: Photo's 2017
Tree (cows)
Ufhusen, 2017-08-22
Steinern
Collection: Photo's 2017
| Cows, gazing and square: | |
| no man would make them like that -- | |
| cowpower beauty! | |
| Hoekige koeien: | Eckige Kühe: |
| geen mens zou ze zo maken -- | kein Mensch würde's so machen -- |
| koeiemachtig mooi! | Scheiße, kuhig schön! |
Amsterdam, 2014-05-29
Collection: The Praised One
| The cows are mooing, | |
| sheep are bleating, and the wind -- | |
| disperses the seeds. | |
| Er loeien koeien, | Die Kühe muhen, |
| schapen blaten, en de wind -- | Schafen meckern, und der Wind -- |
| zaait de zaden uit. | sät die Samen aus. |
Amsterdam, 2014-02-22
Cows moo (Jules Deelder) - 1980
Poem "Koeien loeien" (collection "Sturm und Drang")
Collection: No wonder
Tribute to: Deelder, Jules
| The cows look at me | |
| as if they ask me: are you -- | |
| living without grass? | |
| De koeien kijken | Die Kühe sehen |
| me aan alsof ze vragen: | mich an als fragen sie mich: |
| leef jij zonder gras? | lebst du ohne Gras? |
Amsterdam, 2013-10-08
Collection: Untwisted
| The muffled silence | |
| of fine drizzling rain, with cows -- | |
| pulling at the grass. | |
| Gedempte stilte | Gedämpfte Stille |
| van fijne regen, koeien -- | von feinem Regen, Kühe -- |
| trekken aan het gras. | ziehen an das Gras. |
Amsterdam, 2013-08-15
Collection: Webgarden
| Alone in my house, | |
| being enclosed by the fog -- | |
| A cow is mooing. | |
| Alleen in mijn huis, | Alleine im Haus, |
| ingesloten door de mist -- | eingeschlossen vom Nebel -- |
| Ergens loeit een koe. | Die Kühe muhen. |
Amsterdam, 2012-04-20
Collection: Local tardiness
Cows
Wirzweli, 2010-05-09
Dory
Collection: Photo's 2010
Cow
Wolhusen, 2004-09-05
Collection: Photo's 2004
Dedicated to: Madelief dK
Bison
Wolhusen, 2002-10-05
Collection: Photo's 2002
Cows
Dingle, 2002-08-29
Collection: Photo's 2002
Bull
Amsterdam, 2001-06-17
Collection: Pencil
Cow
Amsterdam, 2001-06-17
Collection: Pencil
Bison
Amsterdam, 2001-06-15
Collection: Pencil
