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Martine Jacobs | Hamarartstudio 🏛️

Artist & Archivist. Forthcoming inclusion in The Feminist Institute’s archive, New York. Moving my historical archive (1998-2007) to a new home onchain. 🗽
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Martine Jacobs created a bold and experimental series of pastel collages using real dried hemp leaves a pioneering gesture that merged botanical material website Martine Jacobs 1996.

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Martine Jacobs created a bold and experimental series of pastel collages using real dried hemp leaves a pioneering gesture that merged botanical material website Martine Jacobs 1996
February 6, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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ho Fucked Our Ideals?
Not about sex about betrayal collapse of promises

Martine Jacobs a true child of the seventies, once journeyed through the East no luggage just spirit Like many cultural hippies she carried ideals of peace freedom

#ProtestArt #PoliticalArt #ConceptualArt #Counterculture
Years later, in 2003, Martine looked back and asked: What remains of our ideals? In response, she created this digital protest piece. Using the iconic LP cover of the Woodstock film — once a symbol of collective hope — she overlaid it with raw graffiti: “Who Fucked Our Ideals.” The phrase is scrawled in red, urgent and uneven, like a scream across history. The work pulses with layered imagery: anti-war slogans, political critique, and fragments of cultural memory. This is not nostalgia — it is confrontation. The piece mourns the betrayal of a generation’s dreams and reclaims protest as art. Who Fucked Our Ideals is both a question and a wound.
February 5, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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Morning Buddha red 1998 A digital artwork that captures a moment of spiritual awakening.

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Morning Buddha red 1998 A striking digital artwork that captures a moment of spiritual awakening.
February 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Happiness Is Giving

Today my early digital works (made from 1998, long before social media and NFTs) were included in the archive of The Feminist Institute in New York.
Grateful that these early experiments now have a place in feminist digital art history.

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Happiness Is Giving (2004)Emotional symbolism Giving as luminous gesture — tenderness made visible.
February 5, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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The Eternal Burden of Phisulis — pastel, 2025.
A solitary figure endlessly pushing weight uphill.
An image of persistence, struggle, and the quiet absurdity of existence. #sisyphus #mythology #philosophy #meaning
February 4, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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Who’s Afraid of Buddha 1998

A homage to Barnett Newman’s modernist provocation.
Who’s Afraid of Buddha reframes the question of fear not through abstraction but through spiritual presence.

Digital experimentation calm versus anxiety.

#modernart #ArtHistory #SpiritualResistance #Art
Who’s Afraid of Buddha (1998) In a bold homage to Barnett Newman’s modernist provocation, Who’s Afraid of Buddha reframes the question of fear—not through abstraction alone, but through spiritual presence. Digital experimentation meets confrontation: calm versus anxiety, contemplation versus power.
February 4, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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On-violence toward one’s own people.
Buddha – Fascist (2007)

This work was created 19 years ago as a digital protest against authoritarian figures—those who shout, lie, intimidate, and never lose sight of their own self-interest. spiritual calm versus aggression

#ArtAsProtest #AntiFascism #art
On-violence toward one’s own people. Buddha – Fascist (2007) This work was created 19 years ago as a digital protest against authoritarian figures—those who shout, lie, intimidate, and never lose sight of their own self-interest. spiritual calm versus aggression
February 4, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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he paradox of the "Urban Monk." 🦇🧘‍♂️

In my work 'Buddha Batman' (2006), I explore the surreal encounter between spiritual serenity and the urgency of pop culture.

How do meditation and struggle relate to each other in our current visual culture?

#Art #Philosophy #Batman #Buddha #DigitalArt
In my work 'Buddha Batman' (2006), I explore the surreal encounter between spiritual serenity and the urgency of pop culture. It is the tension between the prince who sought enlightenment and the billionaire who enforced justice through trauma.
February 4, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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Conversation with AI

Martine: Museums are beginning to censor their own walls
Exhibitions are being softened
AI: When museums whitewash what was once raw, they lose their role as memory keepers. Whitewashing is forgetting.

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#InstitutionalCritique
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Conversation with the Machine — Part 3 Museums are beginning to censor their own walls Martine: Museums are beginning to censor their own walls. Exhibitions are being softened, adjusted, erased. As if history is too sharp for the present.
February 3, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Gum 2001 identity, consumption.

Where analog memory meets digital archaeology. Layering physical textures into the virtual space to preserve the tactile.

Building this for feministinstitute.org

Internet archive archive.org/details/@mar...

#ArtHistory #FeministArt #ArchiveContemporaryArt
gum 2001Jacobs explores themes of identity, consumption, and postmodern fragmentation. The digital manipulation distorts the figure into a synthetic presence.
February 3, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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A journey from 1979 that still defines my art today. 🏛

The Last Echoes of the Magic Bus (1979). This pastel work captures the soulful gaze of Nepalese and Tibetan children, a memory frozen in time during an epic overland journey. It shaped my identity forever

#ArtSky #TravelHistory #PastelArt #art
an epic overland journey in 1979. Together with my husband Hans, I followed the fading "Hippie Trail"—a path of liberation that began in the late 60s with the legendary Magic Bus. We traveled from the Netherlands deep into Asia, crossing an Iran already held in tension and an Afghanistan of ancient, untouched beauty, just moments before the devastating cycle of wars began.
February 3, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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When truth decays, the light goes out!

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To my great sadness, it feels like the beautiful America—where I loved to visit, where I celebrated life with kind, loving, spiritual Americans—is slowly fading right now.
February 2, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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@dmovies.bsky.social Thanks for the follow @dmovies.bsky.social! Excited to see more of your thought-provoking cinema picks on my feed. 🎬
February 2, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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Hi Bluesky!

Hi Bluesky! 🏛️

Artist/Archivist preparing my 1998-2007 archive for The Feminist Institute, NYC. 'Madonna’s Prism' (shown) explores icons in a new light. 🗽

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n 2007, I started a project combining Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon with the iconography of Mother Mary. It began as a digital piece, which served as my starting point. Later that year, I recreated the concept by hand: a 100 x 100 cm pastel painting on a wooden panel. One is digital (right side), one is handmade pastel, but both captured the same moment in my practice. Moving from the screen to physical materials really changed how I connected with the work. 🎨
February 2, 2026 at 11:10 AM