With love ..... from Holland

This time I want to show you my coat 'With love....... from Holland'
I have been working at schools for secondary education for 32 years now.
Always at so-called 'black'schools, with pupils from foreign countries, whose parents came to the Netherlands to work here. These people were expected to go back to their own countries, by our government anyway.
Of course that didn't happen, and now they're part of our society.
As a matter of fact they are as Dutch as I am!
In this coat I used portraits, symbols and attributes belonging to the different ethnic groups.

They're  the new Dutch  symbols!

Dutch girl

Chinese grandma

Turkish girl

Hindu boy

Jewish girl

Creole girl from Surinam

Tulips

Green

This is my coat Green
Inspiration: Think, act, live GREEN

Save our forests and oceans and all creatures living on this planet.

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from friday April 1st

Serpent

This is my coat Serpent.

Inspiratie:

“De slang, enerzijds symbool van het leven en vruchtbaarheid, anderzijds symbool van het kwaad.

De zichzelf in de staart bijtende slang symboliseert vooral de eeuwigheid; de spiraalbeweging van de kosmos, het cyclische ritme van de seizoenen, geboorte en dood, het afnemen en wassen van de maan, het opgaan en ondergaan van de zon.”

Inspiration:
"The Serpent that bites itself in the tail symbolizes eternity, the spiral rythm of the seasons, birth and death, the waxing and waning of the moon, the rising and setting of the sun."

Serpent is a silk coat with a large snake appliqué, butterflies and lots of machine embroidered flowers.