The Joost Files
Back to Abstraction
Looking back, I think what moved me most as a child was abstract art. I had a poster of Kandinsky above my bed, and one from the exhibition El Futurismo….
The First Drawing Session 2026
I started with still lifes. I’ve been drawing with some friends on a weekly basis for over 30 years. We started the drawing club at art school, to…
The taste of earth. Memory and storage.
The taste of earth. Memory and storage.Seeds can sleep for hundreds of years before they wake up and sprout. The memory that lies in the earth goes back…
When Tears turn to stone.
Animistic still life photography with natural materials — fine art images of stone, wool, and wood that reveal the quiet spirit of matter.
Still life with cat
The still lifes, or small installations as I call them are not always left in peace. Sometimes one of our cats comes along to check if everything is in place.
The boulder’s time is not my own
The boulder’s time is not my own,and yet we meet, just in time.In a brief instant, the rhythmsbrush, embrace, and intertwine.Then they release, and each…
Waiting Ghosts
There was the memory, the reflection, and the absorption. All in one. The rocks looked at me, and I saw my own breath feeding the life that lived in their…
A gentle thought
When the gentle thought touches you,Be quick to respond—welcome her in.Feel the warm tingling in your hands,And hope she will stay for a while. Her first…
The reminiscence of a bullet.
A lot of things wait and ripen for years in my studio before I have the courage to use them in a setting for a photo shoot. Some objects are difficult. They…