Nipe Nikupe – Give me and I will give you. Throughout his work, Jan  also sought to take seriously the  etymological sense of the word ‘gift,’ which is derived from the old Indo-European ‘ghabh’, meaning both give and take, and which in German (das Gift) can signify both gift and poison. Accordingly, my work defines the gift as ideally a reciprocal process of mutual communication and exchange, which can also, in less ideal forms, contain a more poisonous or toxic element.

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