Tales of Gods and Demons
Up until 2007 all photos I made were analogue and therefore already printed. When I got my first digital camera I stopped printing my images completely. It seemed redundant and expensive. In the last couple of years my opinion on this has started to change again. I missed having something tangible in my hands and…
Places, which left a haunting or sublime impression on me.
I could not help feeling that they were evil things– mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething, half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial; and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this…
The images show a memorial to the small seaside village Petten which had to be evacuated, moved and rebuild multiple times due to its vicinity to the sea and to war destruction. The memorial is a marker for its historical location.I have always loved the graphical nature of groynes, therefore these strange forms attracted me…
As people migrated between Brittany and Britain over the centuries, the Celtic culture and legends merged. Much of that can still be perceived in Brittany nowadays, most notably in the Arthurian legendary forest Brocéliande, in whose waters the Lady Viviane raised Lancelot and where Morgan le Fay trapped her lovers in The Valley of No…
Water is a source of infinite fascination for me. The way it can hide or reveal things with its reflective surface or its endless black depths has always been an inspiration to human imagination, and I am no exception in this regard. As an often used allegory for the passage of time, it is also…
The fractal nature of trees is a fascinating visual magnet, that is apparent in all parts of a tree, from the “veins” of a leaf, the smallest branches to the tips of its roots.
Hiraeth (n, Welsh): a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past.
