Corne_Akkers
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ArtistCorné Akkers
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Typeimage
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Dimensions14.8 x 21 x 0.1 cm
Near the ArenA Last Saturday I went to the Heineken Music Hall near the Johan Cruijff ArenA for my second vaccination shot. On the other side...
Near the ArenA Last Saturday I went to the Heineken Music Hall near the Johan Cruijff ArenA for my second vaccination shot. On the other side of the A2 there is Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, a village to the south of Amsterdam. After teaching art class I had some spare time and thought why not pay it a visit? Not exactly on a whim though. The Dalai Lama’s advice for a happy life is to regularly visit a place you have never been. That one pops up in my mind quite regularly. Such a village often is passed by car all too quickly and I am always on the look for interesting motifs. In other words, no particular reason to visit it and therefor a good reason to do so. Kerkbrug Ouderkerk is flocked by tourists nowadays. I could tell that right from the start but still an interesting place to visit. The Kerkbrug and the canal in front of it drew my attention as a theme. Probably a previous sketch of Rotterdam was on my mind but I was not satisfied after a first session. It needed more an