My work explores the traces human activity leaves behind in both urban and natural landscapes.

Using discarded plastics, found materials and reclaimed surfaces, I create layered abstract compositions that resemble maps, coastlines, aerial views and shifting horizons. The works move between the city and the sea, between infrastructure and erosion, between systems shaped by human movement and landscapes shaped by time and nature.

I am interested in how contemporary life becomes visible through material. Plastic, packaging and industrial remnants function not only as materials, but also as evidence of consumption, tourism, mobility and global circulation. What is normally overlooked or discarded becomes part of new visual landscapes.

Growing up on the Dutch-Belgian coast and living close to the North Sea continue to strongly influence my practice. The sea represents both a physical and mental space: a place of movement, silence, transition and vulnerability. Recent travels through Zanzibar, the Maldives, Thailand, the Philippines and Palau deepened my awareness of the fragile relationship between paradise tourism, marine ecosystems and environmental change.

Rather than making direct environmental statements, I seek a form of abstraction in which beauty and disruption exist simultaneously. From a distance, the works may resemble satellite imagery, coastlines or urban grids. Up close, they reveal weathered surfaces, recycled materials and traces of everyday human activity.

My practice is shaped by observation, collection and transformation. I am drawn to landscapes marked by use, erosion and time — places where human systems and natural systems continuously intersect.