JOB GRIFFIJN

bio

Job Nicolaas Johannes Egidius Maria Griffijn is a bum, a wanderer, adventurer, een flierenfluiter, a slacker, a brat, a rascal and a scoundrel, a flail, a scoffold, a floater, a stoner, a hippy, a vagabond, a dutchman, a player, a creator, a lover, a boozer, a loose canon, a scatterbrain, a bear, a drifter, a blond guy, a tall guy, that guy, a friend and a prick, a busker and a joker, a dad bod and a smoker, an actor, barefoot walker, a dreamer, a son and a brother, an ass, a donkey, a pleaser, a loner, a believer, a free spirit, a hobo, a traveller, a menace, a sceptisist, a thunderstorm, a sloth, a vegetarian, a director, a teacher, a student, a white belt, a foodie, a poet, a liar, a try hard, a quitter, a though guy, soft guy, a clumsy, big, hairy, naïve, unconventional guy, a thinker, a listener, a driver, a longer, a stroller and a streaker, a vandal and a cheater, an artist, an uncle, a grandson, a fling, a hoarder, a postponer, a guesser, a risk taker, a goofball, a fart in the wind

artist statement

Title performance: Sunny times
Title of writings and drawings: Bum thoughts
Title created objects: catching dreams
Title found/ gifted objects: travel artefacts

The work I am presenting is all an, in-between space, that is inspired from traveling and living with my car, first Piet and then Gerrie. Where I searched for things I thought you would never be able to find.

The work is contemplating these attempts to something bigger, something more. Grasping the moments where you for a short second think you have “it” and the many times you think you will never.

It is the result of a two year long process; reflecting on freedom, independence, romanticizing, your role in society and the inner need for adventure.

Containing writings, found/ gifted objects, created objects, drawings and a long durational performance.