Explore The North Paintings- Big City

Big City
2 Frisians looking up to painting of skyline Rotterdam

G. Boersma
acrylics on masonite
31.5" x 15.7" or 80 x 40 cm
2011

Surrounded by other Frisians you hardly even notice you're Frisian. This becomes clear as soon as you visit other places as well.

The biggest city in my province only has a population of 90.000, so when Frisians do visit a real big city they hardly know where to look. My painting shows this quite literally: they look up to the big city.

Of course this attitude changes after only a few visits and in my opinion that can't happen fast enough. If Frisians could only be a little more worldly that sure would be nice.

Newspaper

Yesterday the newspaper was printed! It was just great to see how this huge machine spit out 10.000 copies within a couple of minutes. It all happened so fast! I've never seen my works being reproduced so many times.

When I looked up at the ceiling I could see all the newspapers traveling through the building to dry, a great sight to behold I can tell you! At the end of the production line they all came out neatly packaged in plastic.

I'm really satisfied with the quality as well, those guys at the printing press did an excellent job! Well, I could tell you a whole lot more of course, but somewhere next week you can see it for yourself. I'll then post a short video about the printing process.

If you want to own a copy of this newspaper just let me know by email. They're free of charge and you only pay for postage.

kind regards, Gerard

Auction

If you're interested in purchasing this painting or any of the other Explore The North Paintings just place your bid by email. All paintings have a startprice of just 500,- euro or 690,- USD. The auction closes at midnight, December 5th, 2011.

A part of the proceeds of the auction goes to Jeugd Theater School Meeuw. This youth theatre school in my hometown Leeuwarden recently has been burgled and could use some extra funds right now!

Explore the North

Big City is part of a special series of 12 paintings I made for music and literary festival Explore The North. All paintings are a reflection of the Frisian mentality.

10.000 newspapers containing only the 12 paintings will be spread across my hometown during the festival on november 25 and 26. On these 2 days the paintings are also on display at the Grote Kerk in my hometown Leeuwarden.

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Gerard Boersma, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

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