In 2023 I started a project that continues into the present. I move in the landscape and capture this in color with a mini drone that I can control myself. This allows me to do the work alone. This aspect is important in all my work. The camera feels like an extension of myself. I look at myself from the outside. As a human being I am my body, I am in my body and I am outside my body. By using the drone I have been able to achieve a major new shift in perspective. The camera moves off the ground, into the air. And it can also register my movements from a much greater distance than in previous work. In the stretched vertical film frame, the drone zooms out until my body almost disappears and the environment takes over the image. In each film the camera rises in a spiral shape around the subject: my increasingly smaller, rolling body on the ground. I move within the boundaries of Walcheren, a peninsula that is bordered on almost all sides by the coastline. By rolling over the land and repeating this movement countless times throughout the year (and into the new year), I make a desperate attempt to appropriate it. I leave my traces in it, not always visible and always temporary. Conversely, the landscape always leaves traces on me. Where my skin makes tangible contact with the ground, I am limited.
First series: January - December 2023/2024, Walcheren (NL) (the peninsula on which I was born, raised and currently living)
Second series: January - July 2025, Noord Beveland (first island north of Walcheren)
Third series (coming up): January, February 2026, Verklikkerstrand (Schouwen- Duiveland (second island north of Walcheren)
First series (Walcheren), exhibited in Heimwee, solo exhibition, Nieuwe Kerk Middelburg (2025) and soon in group exhibition Drawing Centre Diepenheim ((June 13 - Sept 5 2026)
Second series (Noord Beveland) commissioned by Catherina Maria Hof (Kamperland, Noord Beveland), showed in group exhibition '(On)rust in de polder' (2025). Series consists of three parts: onrust (disquiet), rust (quiet) and additional temporary drawings in my skin
Third series (Schouwen Duiveland) commissioned by Bewaerschole (Burgh-Haamstede, Schouwen Duiveland), filmed during residency AIR Ellemeet, soon on show in solo exhibition (April 11 - June 17 2026)
Through out the complete series: made possible by Makersregeling Gemeente Middelburg, Provincie Zeeland (Zeeuwse Kunstenaarsregeling), Mondriaan Fund (Artist Basic)
WALCHEREN SERIES (SELECTION) (no audio)
drone performance registration (Walcheren) - selection: January 18 (length complete video of all seasons: 28min23), 2023-2024 (video has no audio)
drone performance registration (Walcheren) - selection: September 15 (length complete video of all seasons: 28min23), 2023-2024 (video has no audio)
drone performance registration (Walcheren) - selection: July 19 (length complete video of all seasons: 28min23), 2023-2024 (video has no audio)
NOORD BEVELAND: FIRST SERIES (SELECTION) - ONRUST (disquiet)- (includes audio)
drone performance registration (Noord-Beveland) - selection: March 20 2025
drone performance registration (Noord-Beveland) - selection: May 8 2025
NOORD BEVELAND: SECOND SERIES (SELECTION) - RUST (quiet) - (includes audio)
drone performance registration (Noord-Beveland) - selection: February 3 2025
NOORD BEVELAND: THIRD SERIES: ADDITIONAL TEMPORARY DRAWINGS IN MY SKIN (SELECTION)
