Let’s collaborate!
Because ruins are not endings. They are beginnings into the unseen poetry of reality.
Let’s collaborate!
I love to collaborate with those who stand before ruins and feel not loss, but poetry. With those who find calm where others see desolation.
Ruins can be sculptures
In my scale model based practice, ruins are no longer grim reminders of the past, but invitations to dream. Each model reimagines a forgotten site as a landscape of wonder, bridging history with future possibilities.
There has been an important shift in my site-specific work. Instead of adding a new art object to a site, I now focus on transforming existing objects into sculptures that we can access. This choice is both conceptually and ecologically driven.
I am open for collaborations with (landscape) architects, archaeologists, curators and local communities who wish to rebel against spatial colonialism by seeking new ways to give meaning to ruins and other disused objects. By translating the raw essence of these sites into visionary maquettes, I offer a tool for exploration: a tangible starting point for dialogue, design, and transformation.
Together, we can rediscover the spirit within ruins and create places that are not just functional, but deeply inspiring. If this resonates with you, then I’d be happy to visit together the site that comes in your mind right now.
“You have changed this place without touching it. We saw it as a wasteland, as a rotten area in our neighbourhood. Our collaboration transformed it into a wild landscape, for us, loaded with narratives.”
— Participant of the To Have And To Hold project, icm Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Venlo, 2012