Encountering the landscape

In this ongoing project (2011-now) I research the relationship between humans and the landscapes around them. Themes as escapism and the sublime are at the core of making my work.

Fascinated by remote and vast landscapes, they also urge me to manipulate them. By putting a person and/or object in the landscape, it starts to feel alienating. I want to play with nature as we observe it when we, for example, go for a walk in the forest. This way I show that our recognizable environments can be transformed into a space for mysterious dreams. My goal is to show the power of the landscape by adding an aberrant object or person, so that a dream can be generated.

I always try to find a contrast as well as an agreement with the objects and the landscape. Sometimes I want to emphasize the playfulness or turn the human figure into some divine creature that has floating objects around itself. Human beings are predominant on this planet, but at the same time we are just little creatures in this massive environment.