Drijfwoud (NL) / Driftwoods (ENG), 2026
Research publication and essay
88p, 19 × 26cm, digital printing and riso
EN: ISBN 9789083521138, NL: ISBN 9789083521121
Copies available / distribution: Idea Books, Jesse Presse
The essay is available online for free at the website of Mister Motley: Drijfwoud (NL) and Driftwoods (ENG)
Graphic design: Kai Udema
Published by: Soft concern hard concern
Copyediting and translation: Michiel Huijben
Riso printing and binding: no kiss? Amsterdam
Text editing: Annabelle Binnerts, Lieneke Hulshof, Maurits de Bruijn
Special thanks to: Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and Mondriaan Fund
From the wooden foundations beneath Amsterdam, extending upstream to rural timber traditions in the German Rhineland, Driftwoods presents the artistic research of Bart Lunenburg, foregrounding the featured photographic series Nocturnes. Through a textual and visual essay that touches upon architectural excavation, medieval timber frames, colour archaeology, rural shadows, carpentry traditions and abandoned tools, Driftwoods reflects on the relations between local wooden architecture and the landscapes that supply their materials. Layering international with personal perspectives, Lunenburg introduces us to the seemingly disappearing knowledge and traditions that still shape the landscapes and houses we inhabit.
In an assemblage of various papers, inks and typography, the book embraces the notion of ‘driftwood’ as artistic framework, bundling washed-up historical references, personal observations and finished artworks that appear simultaneously adrift and fixated, decayed and restored, found and created. Available in English or Dutch.
Research publication and essay
88p, 19 × 26cm, digital printing and riso
EN: ISBN 9789083521138, NL: ISBN 9789083521121
Copies available / distribution: Idea Books, Jesse Presse
The essay is available online for free at the website of Mister Motley: Drijfwoud (NL) and Driftwoods (ENG)
Graphic design: Kai Udema
Published by: Soft concern hard concern
Copyediting and translation: Michiel Huijben
Riso printing and binding: no kiss? Amsterdam
Text editing: Annabelle Binnerts, Lieneke Hulshof, Maurits de Bruijn
Special thanks to: Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and Mondriaan Fund
From the wooden foundations beneath Amsterdam, extending upstream to rural timber traditions in the German Rhineland, Driftwoods presents the artistic research of Bart Lunenburg, foregrounding the featured photographic series Nocturnes. Through a textual and visual essay that touches upon architectural excavation, medieval timber frames, colour archaeology, rural shadows, carpentry traditions and abandoned tools, Driftwoods reflects on the relations between local wooden architecture and the landscapes that supply their materials. Layering international with personal perspectives, Lunenburg introduces us to the seemingly disappearing knowledge and traditions that still shape the landscapes and houses we inhabit.
In an assemblage of various papers, inks and typography, the book embraces the notion of ‘driftwood’ as artistic framework, bundling washed-up historical references, personal observations and finished artworks that appear simultaneously adrift and fixated, decayed and restored, found and created. Available in English or Dutch.
Driftwoods is the result of my artist-in-residence at Künstlerhaus Weilermattes (Brohl, DE), and was published on the occasion of my solo exhibition The Sound of Night Falling in the Other Room at Galerie Caroline O’Breen (Amsterdam, NL), 14.02.26 - 11.04.26
