He employs the templates of newspaper clippings, illustrations and magazines from the eras to express a bleak view of the world. Marcel van Eeden cites Edgar Degas as an influence in terms of his composition and pictorial style. The botanist Robert Walser is also a strong influence with Eeden using text from Walser's books over a series of drawings.
« I had this thought that I am now trying to reach back into the past, to the moment when these pictures were taken, and communicate with the people doing a séance over the radio waves. »
Marcel van Eeden
Between the years 2001-2007 Eeden set himself the task of producing a drawing in ink and pencil on paper every day, which he simultaneously chronicled on his blog. He established a set of rules for the series, in
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He employs the templates of newspaper clippings, illustrations and magazines from the eras to express a bleak view of the world. Marcel van Eeden cites Edgar Degas as an influence in terms of his composition and pictorial style. The botanist Robert Walser is also a strong influence with Eeden using text from Walser's books over a series of drawings.
« I had this thought that I am now trying to reach back into the past, to the moment when these pictures were taken, and communicate with the people doing a séance over the radio waves. »
Marcel van Eeden
Between the years 2001-2007 Eeden set himself the task of producing a drawing in ink and pencil on paper every day, which he simultaneously chronicled on his blog. He established a set of rules for the series, including basing each work on a found image. What resulted is a collection that in the graphic novel style which is a commentary on the way history is recorded and the fallibility of memory. (
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