For me, art is an attitude of presence, curiosity, and freedom. In that space, the ordinary begins to breathe, From there, I seek to widen art into life in all its forms. Right now my focus is going to projects like permaculture (gardening, making a pond, etc), improving infrastructure in my living space and continueing building a clay house
I want to share beautiful stories with you.
May 2018
2018
The silk road
Hitchhiking for nine months through remote parts of the world was a complete different way of existing. The day structure was clear: before sunset I tried to find a good spot in nature to pitch my tent, make a fire, cook dinner, sleep and the next morning walk back to the road, raise my thumb and continue heading towards the east. That was the only plan: see how far I gould get with hitchhiking and cross the Tibetan plateau before winter. Beyond that, everything was open.
To the kindness of strangers who would pick me up, to the weather of the day, to road blocks and to routes I hadn't planned.
To awe, to solitude, to discomfort and challenge.
To surprise, to the unknown.
~30.000 km ~500 rides ~9 months
Literally every day was an adventure. A kind Turkish man picked me up and drove me around to show the surroundings, forgetting that he had run out of petrol.He apologized several times. I didn't mind at all. I was grateful for everything that came my way.
Heaven's flowers
you can also pick...
All flowers yearn for your attention. They invite you:
‘Look at me.
Go towards my center!’
Guided by the fragrance of this call we surrender and get lost in each micro-cosmos, journeying to the heart of the flowers, and also to our own.
This art project consists of photographic mandalas. In the process, I engage in an unique technique wherein I open and close the shutter of the camera eight times. With each subsequent re-exposure I let the light fall on the same picture again, so that inside the camera eight exposures are merged into one photograph.
Finding miracles everywhere
What we give our attention to shapes the world we live in.
My photographs seek to restore
connection and balance
with the natural world.
1st prize
National Geographic photo contest 2016
Thanks to a stream restoration project, the forest, and this small beech tree, would get wet feet in winter, as the area was designed to store water like a sponge. I wondered: would this little tree survive the changing conditions?
Stream restoration
I went on assignment for NatGeo NL to document efforts by Dutch nature organisations to return streams to their natural flow and rhythm.
Millingerwaard
The “Room for the River” project celebrated its 25th anniversary, with the successful restoration of the Millingerwaard nature reserve as its showpiece. I photographed the flood plains through the seasons to show their changing beauty and resilience.
