The sculpture, part of the P.C. Hooft Award, made it safely from the The Hague to Amsterdam.
It's now on the piano next to a donkey in what used to me my mother's house and will always be my mother's house.
Henry Miller wrote: 'I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything that was literature has fallen from me. There are no more books to be written thank God.' Hope can be lethal, money and resources never hurt, but you can always look for a mecenas.