Wanting to live life to its fullest one tends to crave for new and more exciting experiences. By piling these new worldly stimuli, we filter through only what we perceive ourselves to be, and what we want others to see. Thus creating a kind of prism that reflects our inner being.

Through my work I would like to peel off these layers of perception one by one, dissecting and studying it, and to understand the process we call life. To me it is not so much the quantity of these life experiences that create the soul, but the way in which understanding, (or at least trying to) these layers is reached. It is also a process of growth.

By reaching back into the beginning and reliving (or even imagining) certain moments, combining them for perspective, one not only studies oneself, but also discovers the essence and fibre of your own being.

The aim is for renewal to take place by discarding the old and to make “space” for a fresh mindset and new challenges. A metaphor for processing old issues, shedding skin and containing and preserving the core of life, is the use of found objects. The use of Perspex in layers is a metaphor for living in process and in simultaneously ambiguous because of the simplification of life.

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