“My art is not about pretty colours and rainbows. That is just the bait. You can only fully understand it when you participate in making it; you have to touch, feel and let yourself be touched. Physically showing up on a polluted beach, facing the man-made apocalypse, acknowledging our ignorance and desctruction of nature and then doing something about it. You will get dirty, sweaty and dig deep in the shadows of our throw-away society and consumerist mass-culture. Yes, it is uncomfortable and you might feel helpless or angry; you might start blaming others or yourself. Yet the presence of nature, of wild untamed nature, will transform the experience. Slowly these negative emotions change into curiosity, into a sense of empowerment, into a creative process and a visible result. Sometimes you even leave with a sense of peace.”
