van

van / vana

van has a lower case v. With a V it is one of the protagonists of Ada, the magnum opus of Vladimir Nabokov. The person under consideration reduces itself to a preposition. A linguistic sum: van Heirseele minus Herr Seele = van.

Asserted at the end of 2002 by Johan De Wilde and till the end of 2009 the factual name of Hans van Heirseele. Ever since: Vana van, or Laura van.

505. KOSMOGRAFIA. Curator: Edwin Carels. October - November 2015. Protagonists: Alex Mendizabal, Brothers Quay, Jelena Vanoverbeek, Jennifer Debauche, Jonas Mekas, Laura van, Leo Copers, Philip Newcombe, Ted Milton, Various Artists.
_MG_2200 821 (2000) oil painting