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What pieces or projects have you been working on lately?<\/strong><\/strong>
I just started a pre-master in photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Being back in school feels very good and challenges me to develop and expand my photography work further. Another project I worked on for a long time is the book I published last summer. This is my third book, but the first photography book, and it is called\u00a0Verstrengeld (Intertwined)<\/em>, published by Bruno Devos<\/strong><\/a> of HOPPER&FUCHS<\/strong><\/a>. It is a visual diary photographed over the last six years. It\u2019s a collection of bodies\u2014human, plant, and animal\u2014and is about looking with \u201csoft attention\u201d and moments in which the inner self is mirrored in the outer world, offering an ode to the subtle layers of emotional life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What did you learn (or unlearn) while working on it?<\/strong><\/strong>
I learned how to make a book: how to select images and order them, how to start a crowdfunding campaign, and how to organise a book presentation. I really liked seeing the printing process on large machines and how layers of ink build up the image. In the late stage of making the book, I had the opportunity to work with a publisher, which helped me a lot with the final process but also with distributing the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What was the most difficult thing you faced this month in your creative process?<\/strong><\/strong>
Because I started studying again after developing my art practice independently for a while, it feels quite confronting to receive critical feedback that makes you think about your work differently. I feel more aware of the creative process and try to trust it with enthusiasm, alternating between insecurity and doubt. Also, combining my own projects and deadlines with a school schedule has been quite challenging this month. Since I am living in the city, it is also challenging for me to find natural spaces that would normally inspire me to take photos. Moving from a more rural area to a bigger city certainly brings challenges in finding the space, both mentally and physically, to take pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What words, ideas or emotions were running through your head?<\/strong><\/strong>
Trust, hope, connectedness, intuition, let it wash over me. In my phone notes: ritual, dance death sleep, clouds in seasons, capturing cycles, circles, entrance to somewhere sacred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Was there any conversation, film, music or book that found its way into this work?<\/strong><\/strong>
Conversations with artists I met after moving to Antwerp definitely influenced my work. I\u2019m also thinking a lot about the book\u00a0Big Magic<\/em>\u00a0by Elizabeth Gilbert<\/strong><\/a>, which I recently read, and the theatre play\u00a0HOPE<\/em>\u00a0by NITE<\/strong><\/a>, Club Guy & Roni<\/strong><\/a>, Thalia Theater Hamburg<\/strong><\/a>, and Guy Weizman<\/strong><\/a>, a story about staying hopeful in times of despair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is your favourite restaurant and what would you recommend us to have there?<\/strong><\/strong>
I don\u2019t really have a favourite restaurant. I prefer small dinners with friends at my place or theirs. My favourite kind of food would be some kind of mezze. I usually get ingredients from the shop where I\u2019ve been working recently: Het Natuurhuis<\/strong><\/a> in Antwerp, a beautiful organic supermarket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Have you collaborated with any studios, labs or workshops recently, or would you like to in the future?<\/strong><\/strong>
I had the opportunity to work in the labs of the Jan van Eyck Academy<\/strong><\/a> in Maastricht in the Netherlands, a beautiful post-academic institute. They have a wonderful printmaking lab and darkroom where I could make large works with the guidance of two amazing workshop supervisors who also make beautiful work themselves. At the moment, I would like to work more in the workshops at my current school and collaborate with other artists and disciplines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recommend us one or several artists you follow, who inspire you, and tell us what you like most about their work or their way of working.<\/strong><\/strong>
Antonia Petrini, Si\u00e2n Davey<\/strong><\/a>, and Lara Gasparotto<\/strong><\/a> are three photographers who make beautiful emotional images and books. I love their way of working with imperfections and colour. Their work feels very intimate, and that\u2019s what I search for in my own work as well.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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