This series is still in research phase for me. For my work it is striking that there is no person in sight. Its lack is characteristic because we often forget that we are part of nature, even though we call it the city where most of us live.

In advance I did not expect how the above and underwater world sometimes merge perfectly. How nature has the upper hand and when nature gets the time everything grows together.

Due to our adaptability, man becomes further removed from the natural origin. It makes us forget that we are still part of nature, and especially dependent on its system. Most astonishingly, we need scientists to determine or (re)define the status of nature and the environment. People expect solutions to environmental problems from the scientific and political angle, without bearing too great a responsibility for themselves.

With the Waterland project I want to build on the starting point of Mist, the changing human behaviour, and man versus nature. Now more focused on the role that water plays in urban areas. How the water gets in our way, but also how we desperately need water. The friction it creates in these areas and the science that constantly tests and implements new methods to find the balance.

a work in progress. First fase made possible by: Museum IJsselstein, Waternet, Melissa Fenijns, Femke Doove and Parool