Yi Jing, Oracle of the Moon

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My real name is Lotti Voute. I was born in Switzerland, but my parents moved in 1947 to the Netherlands. My mother was Dutch, and my grandparents lived there. We moved into my grandfathers house in Leiden, until my parents found a house near Haarlem. My father was an engineer at Fokker, conducting tests on the safety and strength of airplanes.

When I was 24 and couldn't see anything worthwhile in the world, I met Anton Heyboer. He had a deep knowledge of the essence of what life means. He was married to Maria, but he was an artist and it was no problem to live all together. Our life was dedicated to art, not to family life or sex.

In 1974 and 1975 two other girls joined us, and we still live together now, four women. Usually we all call ourselves "Heyboer", because everybody knows us with that name. Anton died in 2005.
Update: There is a different 'now'. in 2025: Maria and Anton have passed away. Joke and I still live in the same cluster of houses and sheds.

We live in a little village to the North of Amsterdam, between a a nature reserve with a lake and a region which is now a national park, also with a lake, which is home to countless migratory birds. They can rest here before flying on, because the lake is too deep to freeze in winter. I made many photos there: you can find them here.

I made a huge website about "everything" of our life and art. Almost every day I fill in more pages, pictures, stories. Part of it is our online art gallery.

When I came into Anton's life, I found an YiJing (Wilhelm's I Ching, first dutch edition). It intrigued me so much that I have been working with it ever since. Slowly understanding more of it.

I wanted to have a different name on this personal website, so I searched for Chinese characters of the first part of my full name Liselotte - Li Se. I found "li, call of waterbirds like cranes" and "zi, child" (pronounced zuh, very much like 'se' in Lise). But zi is also a term of respect, so I was not sure if it was right to use it. I asked Yi and the answer was 61.2: the crane calls its young (zi)...

LiSe - listening and responding to the Calling Crane.