Continuation of the “Something Has Dissipated” project. Using Metahuman Creator in Unreal Engine 5.8 and the audio-driven lip-sync feature of Metahuman Animator.
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Petervan’s Delicacies #184 > March-May 2026
“Delicacies” is my incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks I came across online. Handpicked by a human, no robots, no AI. A form of tripping, wandering, dérivé, with some loosely undefined theme holding them together. Delicacies have no fixed frequency: I hit the publish button when there is enough material. That can be after a week or after 3 months. No pressure, literally. Enjoy!
Some highlights from this edition:
- About Our Uncertain Uncertainties or the Age of Ambiguity – by Kevin Kelly
- About The Twist Move – fascinating series by Nova Spivack
- About being a chip company these days – The Inference Shift by Ben Thompson
If you prefer the full firehose, check out the Substack link: https://petervan.substack.com/p/petervan-delicacies-184
Vloeibaar/Liquid – Poem
Ik wil vloeibaar worden,
zodat ik pas in een emmer,
of in een wilde golf,
of verdeeld over de spatten
van een fontein
Ik wil vloeien zonder vorm,
langs randen die mij niet kennen,
mij voegen naar elke hand
die mij probeert te dragen,
en toch nergens blijven
Ik wil oplossen in regen,
vallen zonder herinnering,
verdwijnen in de aarde
en weer opstijgen als damp,
onzichtbaar maar aanwezig
Ik wil stromen als een rivier,
die nooit dezelfde is,
langs stenen die mij breken
en mij tegelijk verzachten
tot iets dat blijft bewegen
Ik wil vloeibaar worden,
niet om te verdwijnen,
maar om overal te zijn
+++ Google Translate +++
I want to become liquid,
so that I fit in a bucket,
or in a wild wave,
or spread over the splashes
of a fountain
I want to flow without form,
along edges that do not know me,
adapt to every hand
that tries to carry me,
and yet remain nowhere
I want to dissolve in rain,
fall without memory,
disappear into the earth
and rise again as vapor,
invisible but present
I want to flow like a river,
that is never the same,
past stones that break me
and at the same time soften me
into something that keeps moving
I want to become liquid,
not to disappear,
but to be everywhere
Virtual Cube (poem)
Petervan Studios © 2023 – Generated by DALL-E
Het wordt stil.
Ik kijk naar de virtuele kubus waarin ik mij bevind.
Een zwerm vogels vliegt diagonaal voorbij van links naar rechts in het kubistische veld.
Bomen in de wind.
Muren van gouden licht temperen de zachtheid van de achtergrond.
De lucht indigoblauw.
De orchideeën en de rododendrons klaar om te gaan slapen.
Ze buigen nog eenmaal kun kopje voor ze hun knoppen sluiten.
De komende nacht zal rustig en zacht zijn.
De storm in mijn hoofd is verdwenen.
De wind blaast mijn laatste adem uit.
Ik ben vrij om te doen en te zijn.
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Google translation:
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It’s getting quiet.
I look at the virtual cube in which I am.
A flock of birds flies diagonally past from left to right in the cubist field.
Trees in the wind.
Walls of golden light temper the softness of the background.
The sky indigo blue.
The orchids and the rhododendrons ready to go to sleep.
They bend their head once more before closing their buds.
The coming night will be quiet and gentle.
The storm in my head is gone.
The wind blows my last breath.
I am free to do and be.
Invisible (poem)
Petervan Studios © 2022 – Generated by DALL-E
Ik wil onzichtbaar worden
een doorzichtige ballon
in glijvlucht door het heelal
heel-al en vol-ledig
de stilte van de klok
opgelost in oneindigheid
Google translation
I want to become invisible
a transparent balloon
gliding through the universe
whole-whole and full-empty
the silence of the clock
dissolved in infinity
Maisvelden – Cornfields (poem)
Maisvelden
De eerste naakte velden
Vers geschoren stoppels
Nog ruig van de hete zomer
Ik ruik het sap van gevallen appels
Straks zijn ook de kruinen ontbloot
Zoals een koningshoofd
Met nu al wat sluiers mist ’s morgens
Natrillend van genot
Cornfields
The first naked fields
Freshly shaven corn stubbles
Rough of the hot summer
Soon the treetops denuded
Like a bare king’s head
Fog veils In the morning
Vibrations after pleasure
Petervan Expo Vernissage Video Timecapsule
As promised, here is the TimeCapsule video for the virtual opening vernissage of my first solo exhibition.
Subtitles are available in NL/UK
With contributions by my cousin Joost Vander Auwera (Senior Curator – Royal Museums of Fine Art of Belgium, Brussels), Chris Vanbeveren (my Art Painting coach – Academy for Visual Arts, Ghent, Belgium), Frank Poncelet (synthesizer soundscape, co-student Digital Visual Arts, Ghent, Belgium), and John Oliver from Interior Truth. With lots of gratitude.
Background music credits: by Meydän – Tracks: Pure Water, Under Water, Please Wake Up https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Me…
All other artwork, video, soundscape, poems, video editing by Petervan. Produced with standard tools like iMovie and YouTube Studio.
I am inviting video artists to do something more interesting with the raw material of this TimeCapsule. Contact me privately if interested.
Joost and Chris were so kind to write and record introductory words for the opening keynotes. Below some extracts and links to the full versions. The TimeCapsule video includes slightly edited versions of the full versions in NL/UK.
“Petervan has a special sensitivity in his art for the image that captures. And he knows how to maintain this in a multitude of styles and media. This is evident from this solo exhibition. He greatly appreciates what his teachers teach him and that decorates him.”
“He constantly experiments, but his images keep capturing attention, in a wide variety of form languages”
“Peter likes to work with different materials and techniques and since a few months he also expresses himself with digital imaging. In that context, we can definitely speak of “mixed media”. There are even initiatives and ideas to give this a three-dimensional character. We can only encourage it. In his exhibition we see that diversity. There are “grid structures”, paintings with collage-like aspects, idiosyncratic representations of man, interiors, models like I already mentioned, geometric and organic.”
“I think we can safely say that Peter is a thinker in images.”
And Frank Poncelet – in his daily life Operations Architect at the Xplore Group, but here as co-student of the Digital Visual Arts Media Lab of the Academy in Ghent – made a soundscape for the TimeCapsule with his synthesizers. Check out his YouTube Channel Frame Per Second Animation). I selected his video “Pellicule”. I am sure the Corporate Rebels out there will find inspiration in this compilation.
Also included in this TimeCapsule is a recording made by John Oliver from Interior Truth: what he does is interesting – silent witnessing videos of artists. Check him out.
Short version here, and the long version here
My testimonial about this experience:
The silence witnessing approach is refreshing. John creates a virtual space for permission. Permission to be silent, to open-up, to reflect, to adjust, to pause, to dream, and to imagine. He skilfully listens and watches in silence, trying to discern the different stories interwoven in the recording, picking one, and editing it in a high-quality video testimony that respects the integrity of the moment.
Personally, I chose to share stories that were informed from recent reflections, rather than stepping over the lines of my own vulnerability. I know it, and I have no regrets of not exposing my worst shadows to a broader audience. I think it is good for any artist/creative to have a witnessing moment like this, to discover and articulate better what is driving the artistic process. Bravo!
The showroom of the exhibition is open until 31 August 2020. You can get in via this link.
I got some very encouraging feedback after the launch on 1 July 2020, for which I am very grateful. So, more artwork is coming. I just subscribed for another two years at the Academy for Visual Arts in Ghent: a series of 2 specialization years on painting with the aim to professionalise my practice. And cherry on the cake, two artworks already sold: “Blue Boat” and “Five Guys on the Beach”. Feels like the start of a new career.
Enjoy!
Petervan’s First Solo Art Exhibition Opens
I am excited to announce and invite you to Petervan Virtual Solo, my first solo exhibition of some recent artwork.
A collection of sketches – paintings – soundscapes – videos – 3D sculptures – digital sketches – AI warpings – poems – fairy tales – timecapsules
To visit Petervan Virtual Solo, go to https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/1553528/petervan-virtual-solo
The exhibition runs from 1 July 2020 till 31 August 2020 and is open 24/7
Here is a link to the online catalog; you can select specific works, and – if interested – click the “Send Request” button. PDF of the catalog available upon request.
You can also experience these and other artworks in Augmented Reality to get a feel on how these works would fit in your living room: https://augmented.kunstmatrix.com/en/node/1489. You first have to download the KUOI App on your smartphone/tablet, download the barcode, and use ID code 1489
The Opening Vernissage will also be virtual: the format chosen is a video “TimeCapsule” with introductory words by my cousin Joost Vander Auwera (Senior Curator Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_Vander_Auwera) and Chris Vanbeveren (Peter’s art coach at the Academy of Visual Arts in Ghent). The TimeCapsule will be released on 15 July 2020 and you will find it for viewing and download on my webpage https://petervan.wordpress.com/
That is also where you can stay informed. Please subscribe to my website and you’ll get an email notification when there is news.
With gratitude:
To my family, my mentors, and coaches of the art academies of Overijse and Ghent; Joost, Chris, and Frank for the help with the TimeCapsule; my supporters, and everybody who kept/keeps encouraging me to follow my artistic instincts. Special thanks to Peter Hinssen and Cathy Boesmans: our initial plan was to have a real live exhibition in the AppleChapple in Mater, Oudenaarde, Belgium. We were all set to go, but we had to change our plans due to Covid-19. We will be back with some art-videos running in the vintage Mackintoshes.
That’s it! Enjoy the exhibition! I am looking forward to our next encounter, virtually or in real life.
With warm artistic regards,
Ik wil je graag uitnodigen op Petervan Virtual Solo, mijn eerste solo tentoonstelling van recente kunstwerken.
Een collectie schetsen – schilderijen – klankborden – videos – 3D sculpturen – Digitale schetsen – AI verbuigingen – gedichten – sprookjes – tijdscapsules
Je kan Peter’s virtuele tentoonstelling hier bezoeken: https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/1553528/petervan-virtual-solo
De tentoonstelling loopt van 1 Juli 2020 tot 31 Augustus 2020, en is open 24/7.
Hier is een link naar de on-line catalogus van deze tentoonstelling; je kan werken aanklikken en indien interesse is er een “Send Request” knop om mij te contacteren. De PDF van de catalogus is beschikbaar op eenvoudig verzoek.
Deze en andere werken kan je ook als Augmented Reality ervaren en testen hoe een bepaald werk past in jouw ruimte. Ga near https://augmented.kunstmatrix.com/en/node/1489 en download eerst de KUOI App op je smartphone/tablet, download de barcode, en gebruik ID code 1489
Ook de Opening Vernissage zal virtueel zijn: een video TijdsCapsule met inleiding door mijn neef Joost Vander Auwera (Senior Curator Koninklijk Musea van Schone Kunsten van België https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_Vander_Auwera) en Chris Vanbeveren (Peter’s kunst coach schilderen aan de Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Gent). De TijdsCapsule zal gelanceerd worden op 15 Juli 2020 en je zal deze kunnen bekijken en downloaden via mijn website https://petervan.wordpress.com/. Je kan je daar ook inschrijven: je krijgt dan automatisch een email als er nieuws is.
Met dank aan:
Mijn familie, mijn mentoren en coaches van the kunstacademies van Overijse en Gent; Joost, Chris, Frank voor de TijdsCapsule, mijn fans, en iedereen die mij bleef en blijft aanmoedigen om mijn artistieke instincten te volgen. Extra dankwoord voor Peter Hinssen en Cathy Boesmans: ons initieel plan was om de tentoonstelling te laten doorgaan in de AppleChapple in Mater, Oudenaarde, Belgium. Alles stond in de startblokken, maar Covid-19 heeft daar anders over beslist. Uitstel is geen afstel: we komen terug met een aantal art-videos op de vintage Mackintoshes.
Dat is het zowat. Geniet van de tentoonstelling. Ik kijk uit naar onze volgende ontmoeting of gesprek, virtueel of in levenden lijve.
Met warme artistieke groet,
Lentedroom/Springdreaming (poem)
Bomen spreiden hun vingers uit
Hun handen wuiven van weerbarstigheid
Botten water zuigend
Uit zompige aarde
Onhoudbaar vitaal elan
Eieren van nieuwe stokken
Kikkers een verse dril
Mollen leven op hoop
Wolken schuiven de hemel open
De drang dreigt te verzuipen
In een tsunami van nieuw leven
Ik ruik nu al
De appeloogst van de boomgaard
De geur van vers gemaaid gras
Citroen op sla van albast
Er zit een kraai
Hoog in de populier
Een reservatie van een nest
Voor de zomer
Hoog in de boom
Zit ook ik
Ik geef me bloot
En durf te dromen
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Springdreaming
Trees spreading out their fingers
Unrelentless waving hands
Buds soaking water
From swampy soil
Untenable élan vital
Rebooted ovaries
And fresh frogspawn
Molehills of hope
Fluffy clouds slide open in heaven
The risk of drawing the vital urge
In a tsunami of renewed being
I smell now already
An orchard of the apple harvest
The tickle of freshly mowed grass
Citrus on a salad of alabaster
There is a crow
High in the poplar
A reservation for a nest
For the summer
High in that tree
I expose myself
And dare to dream
Ik ben – Je suis – I am
Petervan Artwork © 2019 – Little man on canvas – Acryl on Canvas – 10x10cm
Ik luister, dus ik ben
Ik kijk, dus ik ben
Ik teken, dus ik ben
Ik schrijf, dus ik ben
Ik componeer, dus ik ben
Ik creëer, dus ik ben
Ik loop, dus ik ben
Ik rust, dus ik ben
Ik huil, dus ik ben
Ik dans, dus ik ben
Ik schilder, dus ik ben
Ik peins, dus ik ben
Ik de-peins, dus ik ben
Meen je dat echt?
J’écoute, donc je suis
Je regarde, donc je suis
Je dessine, donc je suis
J’écris, donc je suis
Je compose, donc je suis
Je crée, donc je suis
Je cours, donc je suis
Je me repose donc je suis
Je cris, donc je suis
Je danse, donc je suis
Je peins, donc je suis
Je pense, donc je suis
Je dé-pense, donc je suis
Vraiment?
I listen, therefore I am
I look, therefore I am
I draw, therefore I am
I write, therefore I am
I compose, therefore I am
I create, therefore I am
I run, therefore I am
I chill, therefore I am
I cry, therefore I am
I dance, therefore I am
I paint, therefore I am
I pense, therefore I am
I ex-pense, therefore I am
Really?
This post is the start of a short series of posts on who and where I am/you are, and a set of new interventions and provocations to renew aliveness and alertness in what we observe and what we hope for. Looking forward to creating spiritual, moral and aesthetical advancement together.
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