Artist and activist with a camera.

I do this work because I long for a world of justice and radical equity — a world where everyone can fully be themselves, and where the earth is no longer treated as expendable. My practice is my contribution to that vision: a way to remember what a just world should be, to preserve what we still have, and to give forward to future generations. At the core of my work is a deep sensitivity to injustice. Since childhood, I have felt it in my body when people or nature are harmed by systems of oppression. That embodied knowing shapes everything I make. My body is not separate from my art — I throw it into the work, because I believe my body is also the body of glaciers, of rivers, of soil. Through this recognition, I seek to repair severed relations and resist the extractive worldview that reduces both humans and landscapes to resources. In the end, we are the same. Since 2005, photography has been my way to witness and to connect. In 2018, I began using my work directly in protest, confronting racism in the Netherlands. Since then, my practice has become a site of collective resistance and care: art not only as observation, but as a call to speak out, to heal, to connect.

In my long-term project Melting Heart, I return to the Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland, the largest in the Alps. I listen to her voice — the sound of melting ice. I gather fragments of stone and river in images and sound. I shape sculptures from Dutch river clay, material that carries the glacier’s distant breath. These works hold memory, grief, and resilience, tracing what disappears while refusing to let it vanish unmarked.

More recently, I have expanded this work into the Arctic. In collages, I embed fragments of plastic and seeds from my backyard, bringing the Arctic, the Alps, and my immediate ground into relation. These elements — seeds of renewal, plastics of destruction — speak of survival and loss across landscapes, reminding us that the global and the intimate are inseparable. I am an artist because I believe that my art can shift how we feel, not only what we know. To feel the injustice, the urgency, and also the possibility of repair. My work is an act of memory, of resistance, and of care — a call to fight for a just world, and to live in deep relation with one another and the earth that sustains us.