Travel is a form of pilgrimage for me, but one whose reasons are only revealed upon arrival. Places are not destinations but starting points. By leaving home, one sees with “new” eyes, with a sense of wonderment and attentiveness to detail. The untainted eye drinks in the landscape, until it makes sense, and then attempts to express the spirit of a space with images.

To anchor my understanding of a place, I need solitude, to experience the environment fully and without distractions. This need grows stronger when I return to places I have been before. Then I notice the alterations in a place, what they tell and how I too have changed since last visiting. This experience is a purely intuitive process of observation, revelation, and stillness. I attempt to inhabit the heart of the space, what it is, what has happened in it, who was here, and what it tells me about myself. I try to weave each of these threads into my photos.

The photos expose the exceptional nested in the ordinary, the beauty of carefulness and craft. I attempt to engage with the living identity of a place. The beauty of incompletion, of the act of becoming, also plays a role in my work. This is achieved by isolating elements and placing them in their environment in a way that makes the familiar strange.

Stillness speaks many languages. In stillness and solitude, my connection with a place deepens until its character begins to reveal itself to me. Emptiness rolls in like a tide, and when it recedes, constellations of details catch my eye. Through respect and openness to the moment, individual details offer themselves to the camera.

The photos are not manipulated in the computer but are a true reproduction of the moment I made them.

 b. May 1966, Meppel, the Netherlands

Current occupation: Landscapearchitect
Education: Landscapearchitecture at Agriculture University of Wageningen, (master of science) 
several courses about creative expression since 1972. 
2 years of the course Traject by Kade ateliers especially about the creative workingprocess as an artist (1999-2001).

Recent exhibitions:
2002 Kunstroute BEEKk, De Bilt, NL
Kunstroute Rondje Wijk bij Duurstede, NL
Exhibition Gemeentehuis Nieuwegein, NL
Exhibition Hurts Art Support, Atelier 228 Den Haag, NL
Exhibition Tiene Duende, De ruimte Utrecht, NL 
Exhibition St. Lioba Klooster, Egmond Binnen, NL
ExhibitionHurts Art Support, Co-operatie Schiedam, NL
Huiskamerexpositie Javakade 28, Amsterdam, NL
2006 Exhibition in Volksuniversiteit, Utrecht, NL
Sellars Project Space, Denver, Colorado, USA
2007 Sellars Project Space, Denver, Colorado, USA 
2008 Metropolis, Denver, Colorado, USA
2008 Democratic National Convention Slide Show, Denver, Colorado, USA
2008 Month of Photography, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Denver, Colorado, USA