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 Note on the series South America: Medium: Mixed medium (water colour, pencil and gold ink) on paper, leather, stationary, restaurant/hotel bills and on the sailor passport of Han Onderwater, Waldo Bien’s stepfather who had introduced him to the Holland America Line, 1967. Size: Specifications will follow in updating. Drawing 1994-045 shows the Rano Kao crater on Easter Island (also on photo below) This landscape, surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, is the source of the rock that, in 2002,  became part of the F.I.U. conference table Toolkit made for Triodos Bank Bristol, GB. The drawing is made on sheep hide. Several hides were bought in Cusco, Peru, and served later as pedestal/scroll in the Yemen sculpture Geschiebe II, (1994-001) The above watercolour on archival card M, was the first drawing in line, the starting shot. Made on the runway of Ascension Airport, right after landing in Paraguay. It is Bien’s answer to Kloppenburg’s question ‘how he felt’ after the long flight. The visit to Easter Island had been a ‘must’, after they finished the architectural commission for OIBIBIO (1993-022) where Easter Island sculptures had been installed to support a ceiling.
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