Martine Jacobs

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Martine Jacobs | Hamarartstudio 🏛️ Artist & Archivist. Forthcoming inclusion in The Feminist Institute’s archive, New York. Moving my historical archive (1998-2007) to a new home onchain. 🗽

🎨 New work: Origami Lion (2026). A large watercolor (50 x 70 cm) blending fluid, transparent washes with sharp, geometric origami lines. Love how the cool-toned figures lock eyes against that warm, terracotta backdrop. Hand-signed. 🦁✨ #art #watercolor #geometricart #contemporaryart
Pastel on paper. When geometric order fades into decay. 🖌️
New colored pastel piece for 2026. A commentary on transience and how we treat our finest visual arts. #art #blueskyart #pastel #pastelart #traditionalart #fineart #contemporaryart #vangogh #starrynight #culturalheritage #museums #artcriticism #decay #transience #mementomori #artistsonbluesky #artgallery #creators
#art #culturaldecay #digitalart #entropy #farcasterart #contemporaryart #decay #vision #creativeprocess
My happy pastel drawing, "ZonnenblloemenPastel.jpg" 🌻✨ Made back in 1989 as an homage to my forever inspiration and fellow Dutch artist from a golden past, Vincent van Gogh. Channeling that vibrant energy and warmth. #Art #TraditionalArt #PastelDrawing #VanGogh #ArtistsOnBluesky #DutchArt
Vermeer lost work. #lost #art #vermeer #old #classicart #classic #
where water folds
The lost Picasso 2025 Picasso #lost #art #graffity
Art deco style collage with a reclining figure, vibrant red and orange background, and real dark cannabis leaves arranged across the scene
A crowd of people standing in a public square, holding a large banner that reads: 'A NATION THAT YIELDS TO TYRANTS SHALL LOSE MORE THAN LIFE AND PROPERTY, THEN THE LIGHT EXTINGUISHES.' The background features historic Dutch-style brick architecture and a stone gateway." #tyrants #light #protest #fascism #life
Martine Jacobs | 2026 🎨 A digital synthesis of Mondrian-inspired Neoplasticism and the sharp precision of origami. By breaking the human form into folded, low-poly facets, this piece explores the tension between rigid primary colors and organic grace. 📐 Style: Geometric Abstraction / Paper-fold aesthetic 🔴 Palette: De Stijl Primaries (Red, Blue, Yellow) 🚣 Subject: Folded nude in a mosaic vessel #Art #DigitalArt #Mondrian #Origami #GeometricArt #MartineJacobs
Vaticano Stampart (1998) by Martine Jacobs 🎨 A pioneer piece of Early Net Art created on a Pentium II. This digital collage overlays a classical veiled figure with torn Italian stamps, critiquing institutional power through a feminist lens. A raw relic from the pre-platform era. #NetArt #DigitalArt #FeministArt #1998 #Vatican #EarlyNet #ArtHistory
2 Bleu Buddhas (1997) 🎨 Created on a 586 PC using early PaintShop Pro. This piece juxtaposes "Pollock-style" chaos with the serenity of the Buddha—a digital reflection on finding peace within a chaotic world. #DigitalArt #RetroComputing #Zen #Buddha #1990s #VintageTech
peace!
Angel of Hell (1998) 🛡️🔥 A raw "oer-digitaal" collage from the early web era. Classical iconography meets 90s digital grit and saturated glitch textures. #DigitalArt #1998 #EarlyDigital #Collage #ArtHistory #90s #Retro
Inner clarity vs. outer noise. 🌊✨ Martine Jacobs’ "Chaos and Peace" (2004) uses digital abstraction to show that stillness isn't the absence of chaos, but the peace found right in the middle of it. Thoughts on using sacred imagery in digital formats?
Inner peace vs. historical violence. 🧘‍♂️💥 In this 2007 digital series, Martine Jacobs explores the boundary between spirituality and war. Setting a serene Buddha against the chaos of aerial strikes, she asks: Is peace a sanctuary or a witness to history? #Art #DigitalArt #MartineJacobs #Buddha #Philosophy #ArtSky
A peaceful watercolor reinterpretation of my 1998 digital Buddha, blending Christian and Buddhist symbolism into a shared call for harmony and compassion. A quiet reminder that peace begins within. Tags: #art #watercolor #buddha #spirituality #peace #interfaith #mixedtraditions #aquarel #artistonbluesky
The Move 2026 Golden light crossed the board. She waited, then moved—quiet, certain. Not force, but foresight.
Is war coming again? God's ways are inscrutable.
Anne Under the Eye of Compassion 2009 My visual lament for Anne In this pastel on wood I sought a space of spiritual refuge Not portraying her torment, but her release held in the serene watchful gaze of Buddhist compassion A soul finally witnessed and honored
Surfer meets modern art 🌊 A bold fusion of Hokusai’s wave energy and Mondrian’s primary color geometry. Classic inspiration, contemporary vibe. Martine Jacobs print/pastel
Image generated with ChatGPT of my computer studio in 1998. On screen: two blue Buddhas I created in 1998 using an Intel Pentium P54CS and Paint Shop Pro 4. Slow machine, barely any RAM — high resolution often meant crashes.
Mondrians Buddha 2004 Digital composition Software: Adobe Photoshop 4 & Paint Shop Pro4 Technique: Geometric layering, spiritual symbolism, modernist homage Description: Mondriaan’s Buddha is a contemplative fusion of spiritual iconography and modernist abstraction.
The House I Carry This is an original pastel drawing, created with pastel pencils and watercolor paint. The work depicts an artist carrying her past under her arm like a canvas. The canvas symbolizes memories, experiences, and moments that have shaped her. What lies behind her, she carries with her — not as a burden, but as part of her identity.
2026 Urban angel symbolizing protection, hope, and connection.
This piece, "Minosch," was first composed on a Pentium II using Adobe and PaintShop Pro before being hand-translated into a pastel Part of the Renaissance Series, it explores the intersection of early tech and timeless technique. #Art #PastelArt #DigitalToPhysical #RenaissanceSeries #MJacobs #FineArt #ArtHistory #EarlyDigitalArt
Mother Wave (1998) 🌊 Long before the blockchain, there was the wave. This early internet relic from 1998 is now preserved at The Feminist Institute, NYC. 🏛️ A piece of Feminist Spiritual Surrealism. A digital oceanic myth born in the dial-up era. Proud to see these roots finally finding their home onchain.
Kathmandu, 1978. Setting trends before they were 'cool'. 🇳🇵✨ "Before I was a digital archaeologist on @base, I was a 'cultural hippie' in Nepal. I wanted a traditional gold nose stud. The local jeweler was terrified—he’d never seen a Western woman ask for one. There were no piercing studios. Just a thick darning needle, a bottle of alcohol for the pain, and a crowd of curious locals watching me bleed for my style. When I got back to Amsterdam, a cashier stared at me like I was an alien. Two years later, everyone had one. I’ve always been an early adopter. From 1970s subcultures to being one of the first digital artists in 1998.
Martine Jacobs created a bold and experimental series of pastel collages using real dried hemp leaves a pioneering gesture that merged botanical material website Martine Jacobs 1996
Years later, in 2003, Martine looked back and asked: What remains of our ideals? In response, she created this digital protest piece. Using the iconic LP cover of the Woodstock film — once a symbol of collective hope — she overlaid it with raw graffiti: “Who Fucked Our Ideals.” The phrase is scrawled in red, urgent and uneven, like a scream across history. The work pulses with layered imagery: anti-war slogans, political critique, and fragments of cultural memory. This is not nostalgia — it is confrontation. The piece mourns the betrayal of a generation’s dreams and reclaims protest as art. Who Fucked Our Ideals is both a question and a wound.
Morning Buddha red 1998 A striking digital artwork that captures a moment of spiritual awakening.
Happiness Is Giving (2004)Emotional symbolism Giving as luminous gesture — tenderness made visible.
Who’s Afraid of Buddha (1998) In a bold homage to Barnett Newman’s modernist provocation, Who’s Afraid of Buddha reframes the question of fear—not through abstraction alone, but through spiritual presence. Digital experimentation meets confrontation: calm versus anxiety, contemplation versus power.
On-violence toward one’s own people. Buddha – Fascist (2007) This work was created 19 years ago as a digital protest against authoritarian figures—those who shout, lie, intimidate, and never lose sight of their own self-interest. spiritual calm versus aggression
In my work 'Buddha Batman' (2006), I explore the surreal encounter between spiritual serenity and the urgency of pop culture. It is the tension between the prince who sought enlightenment and the billionaire who enforced justice through trauma.
Conversation with the Machine — Part 3 Museums are beginning to censor their own walls Martine: Museums are beginning to censor their own walls. Exhibitions are being softened, adjusted, erased. As if history is too sharp for the present.