
Past Projects
Cloud Studies
During my daily walks, I see the most beautiful cloudscapes.
They remind me of old Dutch paintings.
For the Cloud Studies, thin strips of torn white paper are spun into thread. Transparent spheres are knitted from the threads. Inside these, smaller chains of blown spheres are suspended, sometimes adorned with small objects made of glass beads.
Tulipmania / Fool’s Cap / Tulip Dinner
The Tulipmania project deals with the total hysteria and madness that arose during the tulip mania of 1636–1637, during which the value of a tulip bulb plummeted from priceless to worthless within a year.
The Fool’s Cap, inspired by the etching by Pieter Nolpe in the Rijksmuseum about tulip mania. In the print, tulip traders, known as the ‘cap men,’ gather in a tent shaped like an upside-down tulip.
Floris Ebinger cooks around the theme of the tulip. Tulip bulbs, petals, and liqueur are incorporated into the meal. The use of tulip bulbs as food dates back much further than WWII—reaching as far as Roman times.