Het schilderij Strange (2003) is gebaseerd op onderstaand gedicht                 van D.H. Lawrence.

The painting Strange (2003) is based on .....

Bei hennef

The little river twittering in the twilight
The wan, wandering look of the pale blue sky
     This is almost bliss

And everything shut up and gone to sleep
All the troubles and anxieties and pain
     Gone under the twilight

Only the twilight now, and the soft sh! of the river
     That will last for ever

And at last I know my love for you is here;
I can see it all, it is whole like the twilight
It is large, I could not see it before
Because of the little lights and flickers and interruptions;
     Troubles, anxieties and pains

You are the call and I am the answer
You are the wish and I the fulfilment
You are the night and I the day
      What else? It is perfect enough
      It is perfectly complete,
      You and I,
      What more?

Strange, how we suffer in spite of this!