Hinterland series, 2023 (still in progress)
The startingpoint of this series are memories of hidden places outside the big cities in which leftover architectural markers are merging with the surrounding nature. Somehow places in which nature and man-made structures come together breathe a sense of stillness en tranquility. While a big part of our land is dominated and controlled by people, in more quiet places away from the humdrum of society, nature and human traces more equally merge.
Through this series of imaginative landscapes I am searching for the tipping point between nature and human traces, the recognizable and the surreal, day and night.
Frozen in an everlasting twilight, every landscape depicts certain vagabond buildings that can be seen as leftovers of a certain history but also as places in which one can seek shelter.
The colorful tiles that are omnipresent in this series represent the human tendency to shape and control his environments in rhythmic and mathematical manners.