Digital collage / Stampart / Cultural symbolism

Nederland 1 is a digitally composed artwork created in 2002 using Adobe and Paint Shop Pro on a Pentium II system. Two stylized stamp-like portraits of a woman in traditional Dutch attire — complete with lace hat — anchor the composition. The word “NEDERLAND” appears prominently, affirming national identity while simultaneously reframing it. The background is a chaotic field of blue and teal textures, fragmented text, and abstract overlays, including the word “Dutch” and partial typographic echoes.

This piece inaugurates Martine Jacobs’ Stampart series — a genre she pioneered that transforms postage iconography into emotional and cultural testimony. Nederland 1 is not a stamp, but a digital relic: a self-curated emblem of heritage, femininity, and layered identity. It belongs to her Archaeological Internet Art archive — a collection of emotionally charged digital works created before the rise of platforms and commodification.

✨ Curatorial Commentary

Stampart: Postage iconography reimagined as emotional and cultural artifact

Cultural symbolism: Dutch attire and typography reframed through digital layering and poetic distortion

Philatelic feminism: The female figure as national emblem, memory, and testimony

Digital archaeology: Early internet art as relic of a pre-platform era

Visual rupture: Fragmented text and chaotic textures evoke tension between heritage and abstraction