Lotsverbinding (Interwoven)
I am an artist working at the intersection of art and healing. My practice grows from a personal inheritance, an upbringing shaped by perspectives on embodiment and healing that exist largely outside dominant Western frameworks, and from a desire to pass something on.
I work from the body as a primary instrument, through ritual, material and shared presence, creating situations in which people can step into a different way of relating to themselves, to each other, and to what they carry. Central to my practice are the concepts of intergenerational trauma, healing, attunement and collectivity. I approach healing not as an individual responsibility but as a layered, relational and intergenerational process, and I believe art is particularly well placed to make this felt.
The installation 'Lotsverbinding' grows from this perspective. The work began as a question: what does collective healing look like, and how can art make it felt rather than explained? It grew through conversations with performers, with a shamanic practitioner, with my mother. It grew through making, approaching the weaving of four large textile walls as a ritual practice, holding an intention for the work while making it.
The installation is a spaceholder. A sound piece moves slowly through the enclosed space, inviting visitors to arrive, to listen, and to tie a bead into the woven fabric: a small trace of a moment in life when something changed. The work does not ask for explanation or resolution, it asks only for presence.
What I hope people carry with them when they leave is a feeling that what we carry is not only ours. That healing does not have to happen alone, that it can happen in a shared space, in quiet attention, in the simple act of adding one personal symbol to something larger than yourself.
My work arises from urgency and a desire to pass something on, to create space for ways of healing that deserve more room than our current Western frameworks of care allow. I am an artist who believes that art is particularly well placed to open this collective layer to create situations in which people can briefly step into a different way of relating to themselves, to each other, and to what we carry together.
