During World War II, the Germans constructed a series of hidden radar and communication installations in the forests surrounding the former airbase Deelen, in the Netherlands. These three complexes, known as Teerosen, were built to guide Luftwaffe pilots and monitor the skies. Camouflaged to evade Allied aerial detection, the buildings blended seamlessly into the landscape. But the earth betrayed them.

Between the disguised structures, pale sand paths had been cleared—logistical necessities that left faint, bright scars on the land. These white lines, barely visible from the ground, became highly legible on Royal Air Force aerial photographs. They revealed the otherwise invisible. They became targets. The Teerosen were bombed, abandoned, and eventually absorbed by the soil.

When Stichting Verborgen Landschap invited artists to explore the overlooked histories of this military terrain, I was drawn to these faint white lines on the RAF images—lines that once marked the movement of war, now fading into silence. I decided to walk them. All of them.

By overlaying the wartime aerial photographs with contemporary online satellite maps, I created my own hybrid cartography and embarked on a series of precise walks across each of the original Teerosen lines. I documented what I encountered: traces of rubble, changes in vegetation, new buildings, the encroachment of forest, or complete absence.

This project is both a forensic fieldwork and a poetic gesture. It asks: What remains of a war installation once the war is gone—and what does it mean to walk in its wake?

Some fragments of the Teerosen were buried, stolen, repurposed, or quietly erased. Others remain—not as monuments, but as tensions in the land, where nature, memory, and architecture intersect. For me, my walks transformed aerial distance into bodily proximity. The white lines became not only cartographic clues but performative acts: of witnessing, tracing, and listening. The Teerosen no longer speak in radio waves. But the ground, the sand, the silence—they still transmit.