Artist statement

NATURE AND MANIPULATION

In the extent to wich, is nowadays nature created by people? Rather; manipulated? How much nature is added on earth? Asking myself these questions and with my background as illustrator and designer, I naturally came to my style of photography and image editing.
Climate change is caused by humans. That’s the ultimate manipulation by nature. In my images, I want through (small) addition of change, also manipulate nature. I give the suggestion of confusion and sometimes disruption. Through additions or small changes, I want to create a whole different narrative.

By climate change, nature is totaly dislocated. In winter temprature is much higher than standard and in summer it’s sometimes already autumn or extreme hot. But nature in general is also change. There arises whole new species of plants. In places where they didn’t occur at first. This whole new changing process is what I want to show in my images.

My images in series 1, are made by using mixed techniques: for example; to put colored foil on a print and photograph it again. I add also materials and substances, such as water drops, soap bubbles or paint on a glass plate. Series 2 are digital edited. I use my own source material. That means, that I take photographs trees, plants, flowers and water. I take sharp photos, but also a lot of out of focus or blurred photo’s. That calls for a response of me when I’m working on an image. That’s how the sharpness and blur in my final images are created.

My current images arises intuitively. I only consider my images good enough, when I have surprised myself. I hope the viewer is also surprised and wonders: what do I see exactly? That you have to look twice.

All my images are photographic images.