The totally unusual combination of materials I have had at my disposal since 2014, namely rolls of colourful and contrasting high grade vinyls and a pile of plexiglass, has been keeping me pretty occupied.

 The name Eugène Marais is familiar to many cultured Afrikaans-speaking South Africans.

There used to be a very good South African restaurant in Amsterdam called ‘Pygmalion’, located at the beginning of the Nieuwe Spiegelstraat, a narrow street with art galleries and antique boutiques running all the way over the canals from the Herengracht to the Rijksmuseum.