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Gus Møystad: Ex nihilo nihil fit

By Gus Møystad, translated by Laura Vroomen
2 December 2022 1 min. reading time Calm Before the Storm

Eighteen young writers from Flanders and the Netherlands have brought nineteenth-century artefacts from the Rijksmuseum to life. They wrote their stories in response to the question: what do you see when you look at these objects through the lens of impending doom?
Gus Møystad drew a graphic story inspired by Jozef Israëls’ painting The Sand Bargeman.
‘I can all but set my clock by his daily routine.’

Ex nihilo nihil fit

Guus Moystad 6553 c Marianne Hommersom 8x8

Gus Møystad

Gus Møystad (b. 1992) works in Amsterdam as an artist, writer and storyteller. He is a chaotic mishmash of identities and feelings, which never quite settled after a childhood in Beirut, an international school in Oslo, roots in Maastricht and family in Brussels. This mishmash is expressed through the finest mishmash medium of all time: comic strips. He is interested in and inspired by politics, history, fantasy, utopia, bodies and identity.

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