Nest (ongoing)

Nest. 'We show with light and shadow the world that is in your head and heart and the battle between them'. Nature and imagination are central to my work. In my ongoing project Nest, which consists of photographs and texts by me and my daughter Trijntje (15), we sketch a (dream) world based on stories from our lives, sources of inspiration from literature, film and performative arts. All this against the background of the ever present nature in our work. Because of the lack of colour in my photography I am looking for a kind of 'existentialist images'. In my opinion, colour represents reality, black and white the truth. Together with my daughter and others I try to interpret the origin of life from 'our Nest'. Trijntje has been a source of inspiration since the beginning of the series, but also a co-artist. We work together in the project and thus show how personal the work of an artist can become. Choices are made together and images are composed by both of us.  We work together on the wonderful world of props, people from our family circle and imaginative environments. For example, we travelled to Sweden to photograph in the landscape where filmmaker Ingmar Bergman shot his famous epic The Seventh Seal. The performative comes from my father and his one-man circus 'Theatro Picollini'. I used to play a role when the audience didn't participate ;)