"Forever" gifts is a series in which I make presents out of painted sheet metal. You can’t open them and they will stay a present forever. This way the promise of a present will never be turned into the disappointment of the content.

The excitement is frozen in time. Like Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment, the present can be nothing and everything at the same time, as long as you don’t open it.

Bart Eysink Smeets studied at Design Academy Eindhoven where his focus went from visual design to conceptual storytelling. After graduating in 2012 he started working at communication agency KesselsKramer, known for its artistic and out-of-the-box approach to advertising. During these years Eysink Smeets evolved his love for simple, intelligent, elegant but slightly weird ideas. In 2017 Eysink Smeets started as a full time artist.