Kitchen tiles in The Hague apartment

When we moved into The Cornerhouse apartments in 1999, we installed a brand new kitchen. We chose a light cream colored tile for the walls. Our friend, Huibert van Dorp, said that he'd like the chance to paint a few just as decoration to be added at random. We gave him 10 tiles, but a week later, he asked for a complete box of 80 tiles. He returned a few days later with all the tiles painted. We had given him a cardboard box with English language paperback books and he had just picked some out at random and found interesting quotes. I suppose an artist, especially one who loves words like Huibert, has a sort of instinct to find important and beautiful words just by scanning a text. So Huibert copied 20 or so paragraphs from the books and painted the other tiles in a sort of illustration of the texts. When the tile setter arrived, Judy laid out the tiles on the floor and asked him to keep them in the "correct" order. We went to lunch and shopping. When we got back, the tiles had been attached, but in another order. The tile setter had just made decisions based on his personal opinion as to what looked good. Nothing to do except say, "Great!" In fact, Huibert loved it because of the element of chance involved. Here is the text from a tile: "It was a prison even to him now, not a happy hunting ground of science. And the river knew better than they did. On the morning of August 27 it swung south, and since the dip of the beds was to the north, they rapidly ran into lower and lower formations. If it kept up this way they would be back in the granite. By nine o'clock they saw the dreaded rock, brown here instead of black, but unmistakable, rising up from the shore line."
Not all the tiles are serious though. One is a shopping list from the butcher: Poulet, gehakt, ham, pekelvlees, salami, boerenmetworst, sausijsjes, slavinken, sudderlappen, chocoladevla, karnemelk, slagroom, boter, boerengatenkaas, ossestaartsoep. Another is a list of the kinds of cakes in a bakery: Mocca, hazelnoot, swark, vlaai, advokaat, kerson, appeltaart, cocoskoek. One shows a large cocoon, titled: Chrysalis Humongus. And, the funniest one is a tile which he, by accident, painted upside down. It is labelled: Upsidedown Pig.
You can see the butcher tile on the bottom right in the photograph.
Luckily, the new owner of our flat, LOVES the tiles and is going to keep them.