Personal project

A set of collages for their own sake and two for the embryo of a Matrix game centred around the nutmeg trade and colonisation. All original pictures are in the public domain. Un ensemble de collages dont deux font partie d’un projet de jeu de rôle de style ‘Matrix’ centré sur le commerce de la noix de muscade et la colonisation. Toutes les images d’origine sont dans le domaine public.

Oil painting of a Swedish woman from 19th century A collage based on the previous picture

Who knew a girl from Dalarna, Sweden, painted in 1861 by Gottfrid Virgin, was in fact an ice witch.

An oil painting of a rich and murderous Dutch man in the 17th century A collage based on the previous picture

Diomedes as depicted by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, and his tired counterpart.

An oil painting of a rich Dutch man in the 17th century A collage based on the previous picture

Laurens Reael, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies between 1616 and 1619, was stationed in the Maluku Islands and oversaw the affairs of the company and the relations and clashes with the Spanish and the English, before falling out of grace with the directors of the company. The original portrait, painted shortly after his return to the Netherlands, only displays wealth and stature. The collage corrects this by incorporating the landscape of Ternate, where the VOC headquarters were located, local flora and fauna and the famed nutmeg which brought so much wealth to the Netherlands.

An oil painting of a rich and murderous Dutch man in the 17th century A collage based on the previous picture

Jan Pieterszoon Coen succeeded Laurens Reael as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies and proceeded to murder and ruthlessly exploit the inhabitants of the Maluku Islands and the Banda Island in particular, only area of the world where the prized nutmeg was produced. Here too, nutmeg takes its place in the background while Coen is wrapped in the landscape of Ambon (an island from the archipelago), defaced by the blood he spilled.

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