In his drawings Dirk Zoete (1969, Gent, Belgium) shows theatrical stages with buildings or ships on them. The system of houses, paddle wheels, barns, people and animals, points to a desire for a simple, coherent world in which man is self-sufficient. In other drawings the theatrical dominates, with harlequin like figures acting on a stage, or a parade of wagons moving through the image. There is a reference to costumes of the Bauhaus and the constructivists but also to the carnival like and grotesque that has such a strong tradition in Belgium with artists like James Ensor and Félicien Rops.