into the beautiful wilderness
of my mind
by my eyes
update #43
a moment of wonder
seeing and thinking
a monologue intérieur
a moment that touches the soul
feeds the curiosity
awakens the desire
sharing those moments
becomes a felt necessity
the source for making art
drifting
with words
2024
screen print
of part of an email
received 5 january 2026
plan voisin (1925)
a plan for urban renewal
in the centre of paris
by Le Corbusie
in 1917
max weber
talked about
‘die Entzauberung der Welt’
freely translated:
the truncated mind of rationalism
mark manders
in museum voorlinden
2025
clair obscure
rievteld schröder house
utrecht
2025
self portrait
generated by chatgpt
based on a text from a stordes brochure:
‘Hein Duijnstee will lead the programme. He is an artist and founder of Stordes.
He is fascinated by social constructs, and especially by companies and organisations.
In his works with Stordes he develops artistic formats and interventions which help organisations to liberate from the constraints of the known and the comfort of control. Organisations discover unseen possibilities of meaning and acting’
with the prompt:
‘can you make an image / picture of Hein Duijnstee?
(2025)
self portrait
using karel marten’s pixelator
stedelijlk museum amsterdam
2025
a fine collection of instruments
the opportunity of a drawing
2025
suzan frecon
the light factory
installation at david zwirner, paris, 2025
(detail of one of the paintings)
the reading watchers
in museum voorlinden
2025
wonder
When art is materialised in an organisation, which is what Stordes strives to make a reality in its work, there is no predefined outcome to start from. On the contrary, I believe that wonder is a crucial ingredient for this endeavour. Wonder is pivotal.
Wonder is that endless human ability which provokes desire, a deeply felt drive to act, to create. Wonder is projected on the reality to create unseen possibilities, which induce acting,
wonder as the core for the crystallisation of beautiful and useful makings.In the arts that mechanism of wonder has delivered in all its diversity an endless enrichment of our lives, for ages.
Although wonder comes naturally to humans, in the highly rationalised environment in which many organisations exist, the space and opportunity of wonder is fiercely constrained. Wonder is suppressed by the holy grail of the data driven mindset, a believe in predictability and control. That is fine to certain degree, but when it comes to meaning, durability, intangible value or real effectiveness (in a sense the essence of art and organisations) it is a dead-end.
In our work as Stordes wonder is a notable part of what we work with and what we want to cherish in organisations.
Sources of wonder are abundant. Creating an awareness of the value of wonder and helping people to find the freedom to embrace it as a source for acting in the context of their own organisation is what we do. We constantly look for artistic ways to evoke that wonder and use it to eventually enrich the acting of the individual and the organisation as a whole.
This update shows some of my personal moments of wonder. They come at unexpected moments when your attention is liberated from noise. Showing them in this format and sharing them with you helps me to make them significant for me.
However there is also another possible positive effect. The update can stimulate you, the reader and the viewer, to reflect on the personal moments of wonder which might, reimagined and projected, serve as a guide for you to act differently and make a meaningful difference, large or small, in your organisation.
update #43
january 2026
all photos, drawings and texts by hein duijnstee
(screenprint email, plan voisin, chatgpt image)