Han Nefkens

Devoid from her art and political activism Frida Kahlo has become a Mexican version of Hello Kitty, no longer the artist whose house opened an important part of Felipe's world to me." 

We both cheered as if we could will it back to life. 

"Free Theater" is an excerpt from ‘Borrowed Time’, the book I wrote about my slow recovery of the HIV induced encephalitis I had in 2002.

“What is that ‘something’ that makes decisions for me? Who is that other, deeply hidden I?”- Extract of ‘The H+F Collection, ten years on’, the book published in 2011 as part of the exhibition at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen that covered my ten years of art activities.

It's hard for me to imagine my brother Victor as a middle-aged man. For me he'll always be a boy of thirty-one, a lost boy, a boy I lost. - Extract from the book Two Empty Chairs

The strange brother I had never really known had vanished. In his place was a brother with whom I now shared a lot of important things. - Extract from the book "Ties that bind"

The book resonated with me. My notebooks were also full of self-recriminations and guilt over having produced nothing of value. 

When I look at his hand writing in my notebook Joep feels close by, as if he’s still here. 

“For one more minute I want to continue enjoying the soothing sound of his voice, the swishing of his broom and the soft humming of the ceiling fan.”