A tree will never be able to root itself organically in the square lot we prepared for it. And neither can I.
This work is part of a series on feeling locked up in the big crammed city. I use how we use nature in the city, as a metaphor for how I and others can feel here. Limited, swallowed up, swept away, and at the same time with a desire to escape it all.
Everyone wants more green in the city. But only in a way and in a place where it doesn't get in anyone's way and where it stands as efficiently as possible. It almost comes back to a profit-maximisation function I learnt while studying Economics.
The whole series was shown at the Exposition "Overwoekerd" in Utrecht, January 2025.
Artist and photographer from Utrecht. I mainly make conceptual and narrative work, both digital and analogue... Read more…