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Sea Of Tranquility

(Nederlandse versie)

Sea Of Tranquility 2025 

Acrylic on canvas 

155 x 90

Part of the Brave New World series

Sea Of Tranquility - acrylic on canvas - 155 x 90 cm - 2025
Sea Of Tranquility – acrylic on canvas – 155 x 90 cm – 2025

This painting features 7 alienated versions of me.

I am not truly at ease with the concept of AI, but as an image creator, I felt the need to know where the future of image creation is heading. So I started my first investigation into AI in Photoshop. 

I used a recent picture of myself and simply instructed the conceptual toolbar: ‘’improve‘’. The result of this one instruction was a bit of horror meets a VR-loving alien. A surprising and baffling introduction to AI, but not really a compliment.

I now imagine that in its eyes, my request for improvement could only lead to something that would visually resemble a physical version of itself, just like the creator who created humankind in his own image. As uncanny as this outcome was, it inspired me to create this canvas on which a more sympathetic version of this raw first artificial draft, times seven, rises from a restless sea of tranquillity. 

What AI made of me
What AI made of me

I thank AI for this inspiration, but I am not sure if I will become a frequent flyer, though; probably I will and without knowing that I do, just like the rest of us. She is beyond us.

I’m not sure our lives will get better with AI and all that it embeds and will encapsulate in the future.

 If it were up to me (it is not), I would rather live life with all its beautiful, natural imperfections and oddities with the certainty of death than become a servant of a perfect faceless system with a poor imagination.

This painting is handmade.

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Fly Now Pay Later

(Nederlandse versie)

Pen and ink on paper 70 x70 x 2 cm

Hereby I introduce my latest artwork ‘Fly Now Pay Later’ to you

Fly Now pay Later - pen on paper 70 x 70 cm 2025
Fly Now pay Later – pen on paper 70 x 70 cm 2025

If only we had wings and winged words that could fly us everywhere

If only we could save our last treads of evaporating fantasy

A free flight to the middle of nowhere

We will compensate, 

later.

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Silicon Valley

(Nederlandse versie)

Hereby I introduce my latest work ‘Silicon Valley’ to you.

Two silicone brains and adhesive letters on metal base 50cm x 25cm x ± 20 cm

Now on display @ Kunstruimte Het Langhuis

Silicon Valley - Silicon brains and transfer characters on a metal plate - 50 x 25 cm - 2025
Silicon Valley – Silicon brains and transfer characters on a metal plate – 50 x 25 cm – 2025

Freedom is a dance a movement, those who stand idle and unmoved will sooner or later find themselves dancing to the tune of another

Silicon Valley ergo Uncanny Valley

Silicon Valley-front
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In Our Nature 2024

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Hereby I present my latest painting to you.

In Our Nature – 2024

Acrylic on canvas

70 x 70 cm

Part of the Side show series

In Our Nature 2024- Acrylic on canvas- part of the Side Show series
In Our Nature 2024- Acrylic on canvas- part of the Side Show series

The blue letters on a paper bag smiled at me from the roadside, It has been there for a while, at least a few days. Yet it hasn’t been so long that either the blue is discoloured or the bag half-decayed. It still looks fresh. Next to the bag, scraps of what was probably a burger. A piece of grey matter in yellow-pink goo hangs bloodlessly from a white bag, with green limp lettuce leaves and a sliver of tomato as irrefutable evidence of knowledge of good nutricion. A pair of soulless and limp fries stick out of a bright red cardboard container. A striped straw protrudes triumphantly from a large white cup with plastic cap which combined with the red tray of fainted fries gives a festive look. What a happy meal this must have been. 

Everywhere I look I find these silent testimonies of feeding frenzy that apparently had to take place then and there and that after a big burp of pleasure suddenly became too much. Was it too heavy on the stomach to move what was left just an inch? 

Evidently, that which was picked up, wheeled around and nibbled on full of desire and gluttony had to be disassociated from as soon as possible, immediately in fact. 

Those who love blue letters can move from A to B while scrabbling. Those less fond of it see mostly a correlation.

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Insomnia [a bed piece about bed peace]

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I hereby proudly present my latest painting to you

Insomnia- [ a bed piece about bed peace ] 2024 – part of the Brave New World series.

Insomnia(a bed piece about bed peace)- Acryl op canvas 155 x 90 cm 2024
Insomnia(a bed piece about bed peace)-Acryl op canvas- 155 x 90 cm- 2024

This canvas took me a while. The messy bedding, duvet and wrinkled sheets forced me to look closely and study what was actually happening there in that fabric. I saw so much detail, hue differences in grey tones, fold lines, creases and bulges that had almost human traits, that there was practically no way out. In the second instance, I chose to leave out a lot of detail again, by erasing it. The turmoil in the image depicts my own turmoil from a while ago. This is my reckoning with that period.

2023- Haunting thoughts kept me awake during a period of 3 months. The thought of haunting thoughts kept me awake. The fear of the thoughts of the haunting thoughts kept me awake and made me anxious to go to bed. 

Tossing and turning, it seemed a never ending attempt to silence my restless heart. Tried [too] hard to ignore noises of wind blowing, cats on roof, a car starting, a street conversation, a train passing, a party in the distance, even the comforting respiration of my man and the snoring of my cat. I hold my heart and belly as my breath is too high up and going too fast. 

My eyes wide shut. 

Hoping to shut the flow of insecure and sad voices within.

A glance at the alarm clock tells me that it’s four AM. 

I scare myself.

All I ever really wanted was peace, peace of mind, peace of heart, bed peace.

and I finally found it,

for now.

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R.O.T. Selections Pink 01, Black 04 & Green 01

R.O.T. Black selection 04-2024
R.O.T. Black selection 04- 2024

Introducing to you: R.O.T. Selections Pink 01, Black 04 & Green 01. Drawn from the Remains Of Today series

I started with a series of small circular made canvases in 2018, and named the small unique works verbals. I created in total 300 verbals by the name of Remains Of Today.

They were presented to you on this platform over time, as single artworks and sets. As I finished this project about revaluing litter and daily remains, I decided to re-order and re-present them. You may regard it as a best off’, sampling the best works in the best possible combinations of 9.

Read all about this project and total installation @ https://www.maritotto.nl/over-remains-of-today/

(NL)

Even voorstellen: R.O.T. Selecties Roze 01, Zwart 04 & Groen 01. geselecteerd uit de Remains Of Today serie

Ik begon in 2018 met een serie kleine circulair gemaakte doeken en noemde de kleine unieke werken verbals. In totaal maakte ik 300 verbals onder de naam Remains Of Today.

Ze werden in de loop van de tijd aan jullie gepresenteerd op dit platform, als losse kunstwerken en als sets. Toen ik dit project over het herwaarderen van zwerfafval en dagelijkse overblijfselen had afgerond, besloot ik ze opnieuw te ordenen en te presenteren. Je kunt het zien als een ‘best off’, een selectie van de beste werken in de best mogelijke combinaties van 9.

Lees alles over dit project en de totale installatie

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R.O.T. Yellow, Black and Red @ expositie Sustainable

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Vanaf donderdag 14 december is de expositie Sustainable (Duurzaamheid in de kunst) te zien in Galerie de Ploeg, Amersfoort. De expositie is tot 07 januari te bezoeken.

R.O.T. Yellow, Black and Red 2023. Remains Of Today selections - 27 x
R.O.T. Yellow, Black and Red 2023

R.O.T. Yellow, Black and Red zijn voortgevloeid uit mijn project + installatie van Remains Of Today. Dit project/ deze installatie is afgelopen maand (november 2023) afgerond. Het behelst in totaal 300 kleine (30 x 30cm) circulaire kunstwerken van gevonden en hergebruikte materialen en teksten. Remains Of Today heeft op diverse plekken geëxposeerd als een grote – groeiende – installatie. Toen ik de laatste hand er aan legde voelde ik de behoefte om er toch een hele nieuwe benadering op los te laten., een soort van Best Of. Deze best of resulteert in verschillende 9 luiken waarbij gezocht is naar overlap in kleur en de best mogelijke collage van de eerder gemaakte collage composities. De eerste 3 Yellow, Black and Red, worden geëxposeerd tijdens Sustainable 02, in galerie de Ploegh.

De overige deelnemende kunstenaars zijn: Hannah Blom, Boudewijn Korsmit, Adriana Nigting, Sari Piek, Mark van Praagh, Catherine Schoenmaker, Cecile Spronsen, Harry Tomese, Jose van Waarde, Carla Zeegers en Marjan Jaspers.

Duurzame kunst heeft geen vaste regels, maar is eerder een evoluerende en
aanpasbare manier van denken over de betekenis van kunst maken. Het maakt gebruik van gerecyclede en hergebruikte materialen, bijeengeraapte of herwonnen materialen, duurzame materialen en processen, en het werken vanuit een missie van duurzaamheid.

Galerie de Ploegh- Cultuurhuis bij Flint, Coninckstraat 58, Amersfoort

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Flat Earth 01, 02 & 03.

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Bij deze presenteer ik de drieluik: Flat Earth 01 – Man on the moon 02 Antipodes en 03 Chaos, 2023.

Digitale artprint op Dibond

3 x 100 x100 cm.

De oude Griekse filosofen zeiden al dat de aarde rond was, maar ze hadden geen solide argumenten of bewijzen. Ze reisden niet door de ruimte, noch over de wereld zelf om dat te weten te komen, ze surfden in feite op hun eigen geschoolde hersengolven en dreven op logica.

Tegen de tijd dat Columbus de wereld wilde ontdekken, was de wereldbol weer plat gestreken door de katholieke kerk. Het weerhield Columbus er niet van de grote oceaan over te steken. Zijn bemanning was bang voor het kantelmoment dat hen te wachten stond.

In de 21e eeuw, het tijdperk van google. Niet surfen op hersengolven, maar het net.  Kennis is overal. We reizen over de wereld, het web, de diepzee, de ruimte en binnenkort ook de tijd, maar de vorm van de aarde wordt door sommigen nog steeds betwist….

Interested? check: https://www.singulart.com/nl/kunstwerken/marit-otto-flat-earth-03-chaos-1891255

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Turist

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Turist - Acryl op canvas 180 x 100 cm 2023 - Brave New World series.
Turist – Acryl op canvas 180 x 100 cm

Bij deze presenteer ik mijn laatste schilderij;

Turist

Acryl op canvas

180 x 100 cm

Zal de laatste Giraffe het succes van de Dodo naar de kroon steken?

Turist is onderdeel van de Brave New World series.

Meer hierover: https://maritotto.nl/brave-new-world-2018-2/