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Vakantieganger Jary vlucht voor enorme bosbrand Frankrijk: ‘Wij moesten zo snel mogelijk weg’

Wat een ontspannen avond in Frankrijk had moeten zijn, slaat voor Jary de Hon (59) uit Hardinxveld-Giessendam om in een hectische nacht. De enorme bosbranden in Frankrijk komen te dichtbij en dwingen hem en zijn gezin om halsoverkop de camping te verlaten. Midden in de nacht pakt hij zijn spullen en vlucht.

Woning meerdere keren beschoten in Rotterdam-Zuid

Een onbekende schutter heeft afgelopen nacht een woning aan de Groene Hilledijk in Rotterdam-Zuid onder vuur genomen. Volgens de politie zijn meerdere schoten gelost. Niemand raakte gewond.

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Dynamic Scenes Emerge from Fumiaki Aono’s Wooden Assemblages

Dynamic Scenes Emerge from Fumiaki Aono’s Wooden Assemblages

Since 1998, Fumiaki Aono has been interested in how objects circulate and what happens when they appear in new contexts. Questions of restoration and regeneration naturally followed, and wood became a prime medium for exploring these themes.

Today, Aono continues to revitalize found objects, particularly discarded furniture. Dressers, chests, and cabinets stack into towering assemblages and become the imaginative backdrop for the artist’s constructed scenes. Converted drawers appear like apartment buildings on a summer day, with tenants leaning out windows and hanging out at street level. Several works also depict box trucks and other vehicles emerging from wooden furnishings, while bicycles, hats, and shoes jut from the edges of sculptures to convey a sense of movement and evolution.

a wooden assemblage sculpture by Fumiaki Aono of two figures carrying furniture

After experimenting with plywood and timber, Aono’s transition to secondhand furniture added a conceptual layer to the pieces. These objects “brought the old memories and lived histories of people into the imagery of the work. In recent years, my concept of ‘regeneration’ has evolved beyond mere physical form; it has become a highly complex and multifaceted process encompassing history, memory, ancient legends, and the deep psyche,” he says.

Explore more from the artist on his website and Instagram.

a wooden assemblage sculpture by Fumiaki Aono of a figure peeking out from behind a bookshelf with small scenes
a wooden assemblage sculpture by Fumiaki Aono of figures in towering structure
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a wooden assemblage sculpture by Fumiaki Aono of figures in towering structure
a wooden assemblage sculpture by Fumiaki Aono of figures living in towering structure
a wooden assemblage sculpture by Fumiaki Aono
a sculpture by Fumiaki Aono of a car
two wooden assemblage sculptures by Fumiaki Aono of trucks emerging from furniture
a wooden assemblage sculpture by Fumiaki Aono of figures merging with furniture
a wooden assemblage sculpture by Fumiaki Aono of figures scaling a towering piece of furniture
a wooden assemblage sculpture by Fumiaki Aono of figures, trees, and a dog

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Shein verloor klanten in de VS sinds importheffingen moeten worden betaald over bestellingen

De Chinese ultrafastfashionwinkel Shein zag zijn omzet in de VS met 14 procent dalen sinds webwinkelpakketjes niet meer vrijgesteld zijn van importbelasting. In Europa verwacht Shein een vergelijkbaar effect, nu een vergelijkbare vrijstelling per 1 juli is geschrapt.


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Labour has overtaken Reform UK in a voter intention poll for the first time in more than a year as Andy Burnham benefits from the momentum built in his first week as prime minister.

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When it comes to predicting the future, why are TV writers better than politicians? | Zoe Williams

From BBC drama The Rapture on the climate crisis to Apple’s Criminal Record on the rise of the far right, culture often sees what politics fails to

In the BBC’s new apocalypse drama, The Rapture, the UK is engulfed in a terrifying heatwave. I watched a preview of the programme in May, while preparing to interview the lead actor Ruth Madeley. I thought at the time: “This will be much more frightening when it chimes with the real life weather, bad luck for them that it’s not coming out for a couple of months.” But, by the time of meeting Madeley the following month, we were already in the middle of a heatwave that would lead to the highest ever recorded June temperature in the UK. The whole encounter made the show feel even more prophetic. She was in a central London hotel, air-conditioned inside, but all the door handles and surrounding street furniture – benches segmented by metal arm rests, to make life just that little bit harder for homeless people – had got way too hot. It was like playing The Floor is Lava, except instead of “floor”, “everything”. It surely can’t hit the screens at a more apposite time than this, I thought, failing to predict that by late July we’d be in heatwave number three, and France would be on fire.

The Daily Mail’s reviewer was upset that Christianity was portrayed “as a bastion of anti-science nutjobs and fundamentalists” in the show, wondering rhetorically whether the BBC would ever create such a drama about a “Muslim imam”. Peculiar thing to get upset about, I thought, since the religion is really more of a symptom of, or even a garnish to, the central atmosphere of engulfing heat. It’s like complaining that cats get a bad rap in the 1974 film The Towering Inferno (yes, there is a cat in it).

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