With this artist's book Arjo Passchier celebrates her 25 years' practice as an artist, inviting the reader to play an active role.

"Then I hope you'll see and experience something that I couldn't have foreseen, because it's so typical of you."

In an unusual way, this edition showcases a selection of visual work of the past ten years.

The artist combines pictures of her paintings – together with philosophical and poetic studio notes – with so-called source images, which have also inspired her to create her works. In this way she lets the reader have a look at 'the other side' of the painting process.  

Passchier writes about looking at art. In poetic words she tells us how she as a visual artist looks at the world and relates to it. Always advocating an open mind, she illustrates the pictures with dialogues based on encounters with her own public and her twenty years of experience as a museum teacher with the Groninger Museum.    

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