French fries forks

French fries fork #109,  60 x 50cm, acrylic on canvas, 2001

French fries forks

During my studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, I became fascinated with ‘found objects’. Among other things I found in the street, I came across three types of plastic forks used to eat potato fries. The forks had various colors. The most numerous type showed a circle just above the three prongs and a number in the stem. Curiously, there was no correlation between number and colour. The first work of a deconstructed fork, made early September 2001, obtained the number 109. The two works produced shortly after the destruction of the World Trade Center both received the number 911.

French fries fork #109, 60 x 50cm, acrylic on canvas, 2001


During my studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, I became fascinated with ‘found objects’. Among other things I found in the street, I came across three types of plastic forks used to eat potato fries. The forks had various colors. The most numerous type showed a circle just above the three prongs and a number in the stem. Curiously, there was no correlation between number and colour. The first work of a deconstructed fork, made early September 2001, obtained the number 109. The two works produced shortly after the destruction of the World Trade Center both received the number 911.

French fries fork #911 (pink), 60 x 50 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2001

French fries forks

French fries fork #911 (pink), 60 x 50 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2001

French fries fork #911 (yellow), 60 x 50 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2001

French fries forks

French fries fork #911 (yellow), 60 x 50 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2001