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From a very early age, I had fun stretching words in my mouth until they seemed strange – for example in words like „Wald…t", “Wäl...lder” or “Wass…s…a...”. I had fun blowing up phonetic sounds like chewing gum until they burst. Until they became nothing but sound and no longer had anything to do with the things they stood for. Except with my own thoughts.

Since my first pair of glasses at the age of three, I have realized that the things are not the way how I see them. I was fascinated by blinking and turning the lenses on their axis until I felt dizzy. Until the branches of those trees blended into the background, drawing abstract patterns, setting rhythms that were waiting to be beaten.

There are many ways to sharpen your awareness and see the world through different eyes: While friends of mine were having their first drug experiences, I started taking photographs. What fascinates me about photographs is that they capture blurs, distortions, rhythmizations and pretend that these are certainties. Photographs fool those who believe that the attribution of words, things and visible shapes is a clear-cut matter.

Later on, I became interested in people who make perceiving, thinking and expressing their issue. After more than two decades of living in a crossover of art, science/theory and didactics, in the last two years I have focussed on my initial questions again. Under the motto "Arranging Things, Thoughts, Matters", I have sorted my art works and have expanded my photographic skills to include printing techniques. These give me new subtle possibilities for abstraction.

The series „woodlands" (2024) presented on the Kunstroute Leiden shows the forest on the island of Vlieland, which underwent a metamorphosis in the rainy winter of 2023/24. Water in places where you wouldn't expect it not only makes the variety of structures overflow. It unavoidably changes the way you move through and think about a forest. It turns a forest into an entirely new matter.