the most international artist in the universe.

If I would have been born exactly where I was born — approximately 4400 kilometres away from where I currently reside — but 100 years before, people might have called me a Chinese Dutch East Indian. If I would have been born exactly where I was born but 30 years before, my birth certificate would have been — like my mother’s birth certificate was — written in the Japanese year 2602.

Luckily I was born exactly where I was born in 1972 Anno Domini, in a world where printing machines have been discovered centuries ago and the Internet is therefore eventual. This has consequently enabled me to start a collection of passports from all the existing nation-states in this world.

At this stage, I have 129 passports. Doesn’t that make me the most international artist in the universe?