Thought works

"Thought works are this and that and this and that too, but definitely not that and this."

Like in the horse paintings/drawings and textile paintings, the content is a reflective/provocative/questioning statement. Short pieces written or painted in a quick manner. – MH and AC.

These were started in 1995 and 1996 and 1997, around that time, when Sands felt he was gaining a voice as an artist and could make such declarative statements. But there are also funny ones like ‘I Think I Control The Weather’. Humorous. Humor is extremely important, even in retrospect, as depressive thoughts are often funny after the fact (to Sands and his husband Robin). The thought drawings are made on business stationery of Sands’ and made mostly with scented colored markers that Sands used to use as a child to draw. They fade in sunlight. The works are often/mostly A4 and are in cheap frames from the Dutch shop HEMA. There are about 50 in frames, but there are more loose pages floating around... – SMW.

Listings connecting to the typology “Thought works” (294)

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00264-2001-TwHd-TopekaWasReally
  • Title
  • Topeka Was Really
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker and pen on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

“It took me until my late thirties to make peace (with the city and its people, who were the problem). It was 150000 but felt like 15.” – SMW. “I think we can all make peace with it as long as we don’t get back there (permanently).” – AC.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00305-c2001-TwHd-MaleTouch
  • Title
  • Male Touch
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker, coffe and pen on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

“I love the way coffee looks on paper.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00306-2001-TwHd-SimoneForti"HandbookInMotion"
  • Title
  • Simone Forti “Handbook In Motion”
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker, coffee and pen on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Technical Notes

The coffee stain resembles a kicking figure.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00001-2014-TwRp-MeetYourOwnNeeds
  • Title
  • Meet Your Own Needs
  • Dimensions
  • 150 x 70
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

Performative actions to exorcise negative thoughts.

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  • 00012-2016-TwRp-HasntAgedWell
  • Title
  • Hasn't Aged Well
  • Dimensions
  • 150 x 55
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “Artists over 70 with storages all over the world. Their children are worried, they don’t even know what’s in there. This is really a problem with artists’ families normal.” – Anon. “We [artists] have no saying, it’s up to them. Now I have a core group of people that will take care of them [my art pieces].” – SMW.

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  • 00002-2009-TwRp-GodIsEenVrouw
  • Title
  • God is een Vrouw
  • Dimensions
  • 241 x 100
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Technical Notes

Returned gift from Tracey Emin. First painting made after many years.

  • Reflection Notes

“I can’t pronounce ‘femininity’ with a straight face. Woman made for woman? the wonder to the man, the rib to the cage, the noxious to the vindicate. Pray to the goddess.” – AC.

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  • 00013-2014-TwRp-ProtestPainting
  • Title
  • Protest Painting (Made in a Trance)
  • Dimensions
  • 100 x 70
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

GSA inventorying session – 10.09.20. “Madness you respect.” – AC.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00003-2009-TwRp-Fame
  • Title
  • Fame
  • Dimensions
  • 238 x 100
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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  • 00014-2012-TwRp-MyPersonalitysMyWork
  • Title
  • My Personality's My Work
  • Dimensions
  • 150 x 66
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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  • 00004-2009-TwRp-ArtistPaintsArtistErykahBadu
  • Title
  • Artist Paints Artist: Erykah Badu
  • Dimensions
  • 238 x 100
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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  • 00015-2010-TwRp-LoveIsTimeless
  • Title
  • Love is Timeless
  • Dimensions
  • 150 x 70
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

SMW & AC inventorying session – 08.10.20. “Maybe it doesn’t take 20 years to understand the work, as Pina Montano says, but even to face the work.” – SMW. “I’m making an executive decision that the archive will have inconsistencies.” – SMW. “How do you look at work that you made 20 years ago and don’t like or feel comfortable with? – AC. “Or relate to […] I don’t see the point in destroying things. They had a function.” – SMW. “It took me 10 years to make, my whole teenage years (‘I’m Proud of Myself’ sculpture), and I didn’t know I was making it. I was living. The accumulation is something I appreciate.” – SMW.

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  • 00005-2009-TwRp-PenisPain
  • Title
  • Penis Pain
  • Dimensions
  • 203 x 100
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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  • 00016-2011-TwRp-PleaseStupid
  • Title
  • Please Stupid
  • Dimensions
  • 150 x 62
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

GSA meeting – 08.02.21. “[...] names that didn’t make it into telling stories.” – MH.

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  • 00006-2016-TwRp-AtypicalShabbyChic
  • Title
  • Atypical/Shabby Chic
  • Dimensions
  • 150 x 68
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

SMW & AC inventorying session – 24.09.20. “Staring at the wall is work.” – SMW. “Thinking is artistic labour.” – AC.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00017-2014-TwRp-ToBeDesiredByMales
  • Title
  • To Be Desired by Males
  • Dimensions
  • 100 x 70
  • Materials
  • Acrylic on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Reflection Notes

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “[…] to archive in order to get viewers into this headspace. anon: The longer you are an artist, the more important it becomes that you cannot remember everything.” – SMW. “Is that desirable, or is it a threat? Maybe both?” – AC.

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