| After the great flood, | |
| people hunt for large shadows: | |
| the fish of the past. | |
| Na de grote vloed | Nach der großen Flut |
| jaagt men op grote schimmen: | jagt man die großen Schatten: |
| vissen van vroeger. | Fische von früher. |
Amsterdam, 2025-12-17
Angel's Egg (Mamoru Oshii) - 1985
Video-animation film "Tenshi no Tamago"
Collection: Plasma
Tribute to: Oshii, Mamoru
| She still haunts the house, | |
| and her stories bossily -- | |
| are haunting my head. | |
| Zij spookt door het huis, | Sie spukt im Haus rum, |
| en haar verhalen spoken -- | ihre Geschichten spuken -- |
| bazig in mijn hoofd. | in meinem Kopf rum. |
Amsterdam, 2025-08-27
Diary 1972-1973 (Frida Vogels) - 2012
"Dagboek 1972-1973" - December 7th, 1972, Bologna
Collection: Overwritten
Tribute to: Vogels, Frida
| The house has become | |
| more empty, one person less -- | |
| and one shadow more. | |
| Weer is het leger | Das Haus ist leerer, |
| in huis, weer een mens minder -- | eine Person weniger -- |
| weer een schim erbij. | und ein Schatten mehr. |
Amsterdam, 2025-08-25
Again a face paled (Frida Vogels) - 1994
Verse "Weer verbleekte een gezicht", published in the collection "De harde kern 3" ("The hard core 3", part XI [Deceased]), and in "Diary 1972-1973" (2012) - August 23rd, 1972, Bologna (after the death of uncle Enea Drione on August 6th)
Collection: Overwritten
Tribute to: Vogels, Frida
| I ask the shadows, | |
| they do not understand me -- | |
| so they shake me off. | |
| Ik spreek de schimmen | Ich frage die Schat- |
| aan, ze begrijpen me niet -- | ten, sie verstehen mich nicht -- |
| en schudden me af. | und schütteln mich ab. |
Amsterdam, 2025-08-23
Someone has come among us (Frida Vogels) - 1994
Poem "Iemand is onder ons gekomen", published in the collection "De harde kern 3" ("The hard core 3", part XI [Deceased]), and in "Diary 1972-1973" (2012) - February 12th, 1972, Bologna
Collection: Overwritten
Tribute to: Vogels, Frida
| The faithful, age-old | |
| histories are powerless -- | |
| as weak as spectres. | |
| De trouwe, oude | Die treuen, alten |
| verhalen zijn krachteloos -- | Geschichten sind kraftlos, so -- |
| zo slap als spoken. | schlaff wie Gespenster. |
Amsterdam, 2025-07-30
Nothing keeps me company: the many images (Frida Vogels) - 1994
Verse "Niets houdt mij gezelschap: de vele beelden", published in the collection "De harde kern 3" ("The hard core 3", part VII [Acquiescence]), and in "Diary 1964-1965" (2008) - April 18th, 1965, Bologna
Collection: Self-portraits
Tribute to: Vogels, Frida
| He is dead, and she | |
| writes me from his mobile phone: | |
| You don't have to cry. | |
| Hij is dood, en zij | Er ist tot, und sie |
| schrijft me vanaf zijn mobiel: | schreibt mir von seinem Handy: |
| Je moet niet huilen. | Du musst nicht weinen. |
Amsterdam, 2024-12-29
Night side of the river: App-arition (Jeanette Winterson) - 2023
Story "App-arition" in the collection "Night side of the river"
Collection: Self-portraits
Tribute to: Winterson, Jeanette
| People from other | |
| worlds are slipping and sliding -- | |
| in, and out again. | |
| Er slippen mensen | Menschen aus einer |
| uit een andere wereld -- | anderen Welt schlüpfen ein -- |
| binnen, en weer weg. | und rutschen heraus. |
Amsterdam, 2024-10-20
the ground beneath her feet (Salman Rushdie) - 1999
Novel, chapter 12 Transformer
Hallucinations
Collection: Low gear
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman
| Stately, hand by hand, | |
| and foot by foot the shaman -- | |
| enchains the spirits. | |
| Plechtig, hand na hand | Würdig, Hand für Hand |
| en voet voor voet, de sjamaan -- | und Fuß für Fuß, der Zaubrer -- |
| bezweert de geesten. | beschwört die Geister. |
Amsterdam, 2024-10-04
Battle against the demons (Sinta Wullur) - 2020
Composition, performed in the Organpark by Gamelan ensemble Global Gongs and Yukari Uekawa (saxophone), on October 4th, 2024
Collection: org anp ARK
Composer: Wullur, Sinta
| Back in the village, | |
| looked at like a dead person -- | |
| an evil spirit. | |
| Terug in het dorp, | Zurück im Dorf, als |
| bekeken als een dode -- | eine Tote angeblickt -- |
| als een boze geest. | als ein böser Geist. |
Amsterdam, 2024-05-17
Shalimar the Clown (Salman Rushdie) - 2005
Novel, chapter Shalimar the Clown, § 1 - Boonyi returns to her village, where she has been declared dead
Collection: Low gear
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman
| Long robes turn people | |
| into imitation ghosts -- | |
| having no bodies. | |
| Lange gewaden | Lange Gewänder |
| maken van mensen spoken -- | machen Menschen zu Geistern -- |
| zonder een lichaam. | Keine Körper mehr. |
Amsterdam, 2024-03-25
Collection: Metamorphic body
| The jinns: a man looks | |
| in the mirror and he sees -- | |
| the back of his head. | |
| De djinns: een man kijkt | Die Dschinns: ein Mann schaut |
| in de spiegel en hij ziet -- | in den Spiegel und er sieht -- |
| daar zijn achterhoofd. | seinen Hinterkopf. |
Amsterdam, 2024-03-13
Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights (Salman Rushdie) - 2015
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights), chapter 4 "The Strangenessses"
Painting "La réproduction interdite" ("Not to be reproduced", 1937, René Magritte)
Collection: Low gear
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman; Magritte, René
| Ghosts see everything, | |
| including us, like we see -- | |
| them: vaguely present. | |
| Geesten zien alles, | Geister sehen uns |
| ook ons, zoals wij hen zien: | so, wie wir sie bemerken: |
| wazig aanwezig. | vage anwesend. |
Amsterdam, 2023-12-28
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie) - 1981
Novel, chapter 3-3 "Sam and the Tiger"
Collection: Low gear
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman
| Leave liquor bottles | |
| closed, you would free a demon -- | |
| that is ravenous. | |
| Laat drankflessen dicht, | Öffne keine Schnapps- |
| anders bevrijd je een geest -- | Flaschen, befreie keinen -- |
| die hongerig is. | hungrigen Dämon. |
Amsterdam, 2023-12-19
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie) - 1981
Djinns
Novel, chapter 2-1 "The fisherman's pointing finger"
Collection: Low gear
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman
| Desert blue, a ghost: | |
| next to the platform, he floats -- | |
| on his snow white horse. | |
| Woestijnblauw, een geest: | Wüstenblau, ein Geist: |
| naast het podium zweeft hij -- | neben der Bühne schwebt er -- |
| op zijn witte paard. | auf seinem Schimmel. |
Amsterdam, 2023-09-12
A Change of tongue (Antjie Krog) - 2003
"La Caravane de la Poésie" in 1999 - Poets read on the village square of Ségou (Mali)
Tale, part 5, A journey (Day Nine)
Collection: No wonder
Tribute to: Krog, Antjie
| In the mists, the king | |
| beckons, come, let us have fun -- | |
| playing together. | |
| In de nevels wenkt | Komm, winkt im Nebel |
| de koning, kom, dan gaan we -- | der König, dann machen wir -- |
| fijn samen spelen. | Spaß miteinander. |
Amsterdam, 2023-09-10
Elf king / Erl king (Johann W. von Goethe / Franz Schubert) - 1782
Poem (ballad) "Erlkönig", put to music in 1815 by Franz Schubert (opus 1)
Collection: Moist glow
Tribute to: Von Goethe, Johann W.
Composer: Schubert, Franz
| I dream of the smell | |
| of apples still to be picked -- | |
| and I don't wake up. | |
| Ik droom van de geur | Ich träume vom Duft |
| van nog te plukken appels -- | von noch zu pflücken Äpfeln -- |
| en word niet wakker. | und wache nicht auf. |
Amsterdam, 2020-11-26
After Apple-Picking (Robert Frost) - 1914
Poem (collection "North of Boston")
Collection: Stream
Tribute to: Frost, Robert
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Toys in the attic |
Amsterdam, 2019-04-14
Julia (Peter Straub) - 1975
Book (film-adaption in 1977 as "Full Circle")
Collection: Bruises
Tribute to: Straub, Peter
| I'm walking with you | |
| and someone else, behind you -- | |
| but I can't see who. | |
| Ik wandel met jou | Ich gehe mit dir |
| en nog iemand, achter jou -- | und mit jemand anderem -- |
| maar ik zie niet wie. | den ich nicht sehe. |
Amsterdam, 2018-10-07
The Waste Land (Thomas Eliot) - 1922
Poem
Collection: Em Brace
Tribute to: Eliot, Thomas S.
| The spirit: of a | |
| flower, of mankind, the earth -- | |
| can be inspiring. | |
| De geest: van een bloem, | Der Geist: der Blumen, |
| van de mensheid, de aarde -- | der Menschheit und der Erde -- |
| is inspirerend. | ist inspirierend. |
Amsterdam, 2018-01-02
Collection: web tissue
| The little children | |
| are shadows that ignore me -- | |
| as if I were one. | |
| Kleine kinderen: | Die kleine Kinder: |
| schimmen die me negeren -- | Schatten, die mich meiden, als -- |
| als was ik er een. | wäre ich einer. |
Amsterdam, 2017-12-20
Too many are shadows, I cannot mingle with the living (Frida Vogels) - 2013
Poem "Te velen zijn schimmen, ik kan niet met de levenden verkeren", published in "Diary 1974-1976" - February 18th, 1974, Amsterdam
Collection: Overwritten
Tribute to: Vogels, Frida
|
It attacks me at night |
Amsterdam, 2017-03-01
Collection: WoofWoof
|
What my brain can do so well |
Amsterdam, 2017-02-19
Villa Volta (Efteling) - 1996
Villa Volta: attraction in the Efteling, in 1996 the first revolving house (madhouse) in the world
Collection: Secrets & Believers
|
I am a giant with numb legs |
Amsterdam, 2017-02-18
Collection: The light of words
| My therapist says: | |
| ghosts are just normal people -- | |
| haunting in the mind. | |
| Mijn therapeut vindt | Mein Therapeut hält |
| geesten gewone mensen -- | Geister für Dutzendmenschen -- |
| spokend in je hoofd. | die im Kopf spuken. |
Amsterdam, 2016-11-02
Tom Puss and The Ghost of Bumble Castle (Marten Toonder) - 1975
Comic strip #148 - "Tom Poes en Het Spook van Bommelstein" (tiers 8130-8189), tier 8160
Collection: Puss & Lord
Tribute to: Toonder, Marten
| I've got everything, | |
| my soul must be here as well -- | |
| or do I see spooks? | |
| Ik heb alles, hier | Meine Seele muss |
| moet mijn ziel ook ergens zijn -- | hier irgendwo sein, oder -- |
| of zie ik spoken? | seh ich Gespenster? |
Amsterdam, 2016-11-02
Tom Puss and The Ghost of Bumble Castle (Marten Toonder) - 1975
Comis strip #148 - Tom Poes en Het Spook van Bommelstein (tiers 8130-8189), tier 8138
Collection: Puss & Lord
Tribute to: Toonder, Marten
| Photos can be life- | |
| like memories, they also -- | |
| can behave like ghosts. | |
| Foto's zijn levens- | Fotos sind lebens- |
| echte herinneringen -- | echte Erinnerungen -- |
| en soms ook spoken. | manchmal Gespenster. |
Amsterdam, 2014-01-17
Collection: Moons
