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Ik ben Martijn, software-ontwikkelaar bij DGMR Software, vader van drie bloedjes van kinders, liefhebber van taal, fantasy en science-fiction.
Recente blogposts en reblogs
[Part 1 here] [Website/More Comics]
[Part 1 here] [Website/More Comics]
Hans Christian Andersen’s the Little Mermaid: Part II.
For Mermay this year, I picked up where I left off adapting the original Little Mermaid fairytale last year. The world below the water is painted like black & white shadow puppets, while the world above the water is painted like stained glass. The shadow puppets call back to old fairytale storytelling traditions and the work of Lotte Reiniger, while the stained glass imagery reflects how the original story associates the world on land with churches and holiness and the question of who gets to have a “human soul.”
Thank you all for following me this month again, including people who were here for last year too!!! I’m so glad other people enjoy this little project, and I hope to see you guys again next year!! <3333
…“At times he will come unseen to the shores of Middle-earth, or pass far inland up firths of the…
…“At times he will come unseen to the shores of Middle-earth, or pass far inland up firths of the sea, and there make music upon his great horns, the Ulumúri, that are wrought of white shell; and those to whom that music comes hear it ever after in their hearts, and longing for the sea never leaves them again.”
The image of Uinen as a personification of the Sea
A woman and seagulls, seagulls and the sea—a theme I return to again and again, and no matter how much I paint, it’s never enough. A salty wind, scented with seaweed, eternity itself, which one can touch and carry away the memory of that touch. An image of freedom, alluring, but with a bitter aftertaste of loneliness.
Adapting the original Little Mermaid fairytale every day for May 2026: page 25. Shipwreck. [This is…
Adapting the original Little Mermaid fairytale every day for May 2026: page 25. Shipwreck. [This is part of an adaptation where the underwater world is painted like shadow puppets while the human world is painted like stained glass.]
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