As a landscape designer and scenographer, I admire, analyse, and design with everyday environments. My fascination and inquiry lie in the relationship between humans and their surroundings and my quest for wonder and the sublime. I explore the connections between our environment and concepts such as staging, performativity, and spectatorship. In my art, I aim to create wonderful experiences by uncovering the hidden characteristics of a location and examining our relationship with it. The main question in my work is: how can the environment be a co-performer?

“These days, we know more and more about the world, but in fact, we are seeing less and less of our own surroundings. We seek our sublime in quick dopamine hits on the internet or book a flight to somewhere to marvel at the landscape. However, in my opinion our own environments have a tremendous amount of wonder to offer, but it needs to be seen. To achieve this, a collaboration with the environment must be made. No art in the environment, but art with the environment. The environment as co-performer and working with site responsive scenography.” – Introduction of final research document