Esmée Jakubowski

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Perception; 2023 - 2024
Paintings (2/3), both 1400 x 770 mm, acryl on linen.

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When speaking of the blue square as a (metaphysical) subject, the term implicates that the blue square, that it indicates in this situation, is an object that we can “know” and/ or it’s something we can “act” up on. The essential characteristics of this subject are also called attributes. (Braeckman, Raymaekers, & van Riel, 2010, p. 311) Something we have to keep in mind, is that we can always find other ways to interact with the subject; there’s two attributes of IKB 3 that a layman would consider “as essential visual characteristics” to this painting. It’s blue (1) and a rectangle (2).

                            

Editing, collecting, writing;
image selection, design




Tussen de woorden (2020)
Publication, collages, words
180 x 254 mm,
exterior: hard cover, rest material, UV print
Interior: Laser print,  Recystar 160 g/m2
Binding: Swiss binding, sewn and cold glued
set in Canela 

Together with four classmates, and two students Cultural Anthropology, we’ve started Ginkgo Collective in the beginning of 2020.
I was responsible for the concept-development and research, buisness strategy and copywriting. Together with the whole team we’ve created content such as podcasts, interviews and collages. 

Team:
Anke Verbeek
Juul van der Zandt
Valentino Angela
Annemijn Catshoek
Esmee Jakubowski

In partnership with KunstOnderzoek 
Instagram


Our mission and vision:

Ginkgo is a place for dialogue between (aspiring) scientists and artists to explore their meaning of research through dialogue: we are looking for people to explore an open language with us!
Ginkgo offers a platform where dialogues can take place, a space where you can find and add references coming from your own discipline and a place for asking questions when you don’t know where to start looking for an answer. For the moment our platform is still online, but in the future we’d like to create a magazine that continues the online conversation and gives designers, artists, scientists, and writers the opportunity to publish their common thoughts: Our fuel is curiosity!

Ginkgo’s core consists of seven aspiring professionals in graphic design and cultural anthropology and development sociology: through some philosophy, trust, a big interest in interdisciplinarity and an open mind we try to bring people together. We are continuously refining and building our platform with the ideas and expertise of professionals such as professors, artists, designers, but most importantly students themselves. We believe that art and science might be seen as parallels and that meeting in the middle is seen as something quite impossible. However, we believe putting the two together could lead to new approaches of research, perceptions, collaborations, discussions and resources.
As students, mistakes can be made without any big consequences. So look at Ginkgo as if it were a playground. Here you can play with things you cannot find in your own discipline, but yet seek feedback and help from other students and experts from different fields of knowledge and translate this to your personal practice.
Our aim is to find the synthesis we call Ginkgo: approaching knowledge that’s not goal directed, neither exploratory based, but just takes the good stuff from science and art in all its forms while it still respects the core identity of each discipline and each person.   


As a platform, we value trust, open mindedness, acknowledgment, adequate sources of information, your values as a person and as a professional, transparency, constructive feedback, understanding and honesty: a safe space where mistakes can be made.
As a part of our community we ask you to stay open minded, try to look at structures of thinking beyond your own and give attention to the way such structures are created. We encourage members to trust this open space and to engage in new learning possibilities by meeting new people and ideas.
Stay true to yourself and your profession while enjoying a conversation with someone that has an opposite approach: Welcome to a place behind the parallel where we’d like to meet on an open ground.

For the identity of this event I took photographs of the plants and flowers from the Tolhuis “tuin” (garden). When making this poster i’ve focussed on rythm, contrast and a natural looking finish which I achieved by using riso print

Tolhuistuin - Sunday Sounds; 2019 297 x 420 mm
Riso, collage, photography, typography

Throwing a dice on a mirror (2019)
Game/ manifesto
330 x 330 mm,
Interior: Laser print, Papyrus 120g/m2,
Glass Mirror (300 x 300 mm)
Hand painted cartboard, acrylics
Cover: Hand painted cartboard, acrylics
Binding: Cold glue
set in Georgia

 



301014 101018 (2018)
publication
148 x 210 mm,
in/ex- terior: laser print,
Recystar 120 g/m2, Cromatico transwhite 110 g/m2
Stapled