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Work during the East West Forum - the illusion of civilization (een illusie van civilisatie)

Back to the symposium of East meets West. The Greek verb 'sympotein' means "to drink together". Another definition of symposium is a formal meeting at which academics, researchers, clinicians and other specialists make presentations on a certain subject or related topics. And this is exactly what was taking place during the first two weeks. Be it that these specialists were artists.

The sandy spot of Robert O'Brien and Irene Fortuyn - diamonds are forever.

The Japanese sculptors had adopted a mutual plan (actually they had made individual plans, but decided that they would all make a choice and after that was done it was 'their' plan. I this way my definition of art coming from the individual alone still holds. But the comes the hard part ....

organization: East West Forum working group of the Dutch Sculptors' Association 1981-1983