p.20 – “Always you will be asked for your story: after (the accent twigged) ‘Where are you from?’ comes ‘And what brings you here?’ – because, so the thinking goes, this story defines the individual, for better or for worse. You are the embodiment of your story and if people don't know the beginning or middle, how can they predict the end? May you stay? Must you go? You will probably have a long version and a short version and both will, over time, be well rehearsed.”
As a research-based book maker and archivist, her practice is concerned with investigating experience-based knowledge and how it can be translated into publications and tools for its transmission. Through walking – field research – she reaches places apparently isolated and their inhabitants. Personal explorations, theoretical research and conversations with people are moments of collection of traces she later combines with writing (words and images) to create narrations between elements apparently distant. She has a special attraction for leftovers elements and spaces, anecdotes, dog-eared pages and documenting changes of and in time – you can read some of her notes in the Journal.
She likes to spend time on the yellow floor of San Serriffe in Amsterdam – she is part of the bookstore's team since some time. When she is not there she is shaping bread (Bakkerij Mater sourdough and family run bakery in Amsterdam) or books at her baita. Sometimes she really enjoy to screen-print on fabric.
She is often between lowlands and highlands and she loves to travel by train.
