Reflecting on the period of theorizing art history, I became aware of the variety of perspectives of looking at things. I wandered how to deconstruct them to create different spaces of thought.

Looking back on my own art practice, questioning the so-called 'reality' or its representation, is a thread in my work. What is ‘fake’ (trompe l’oeil) or ‘real’ (materialized) I visualized in daily recognizable ‘objects’ or images, what turned out to be illusions.

Hidden meanings or misleading perceptions is something I challenge in my work. How can I question or deconstruct (and/or break down) my own frames in order to arrive at a new alternative one, is one of my purposes.

My work deals with a visual investigation of how images seduce the viewer into what they see and, more importantly, what they do not see or how they might feel deceived.

How can I be questioning my own perspective as a white Dutch woman of a certain generation? Therefore, developing manners to come into a dialogue, is at stake.

From a personal experience of where I belong to and what is outside and inside that boundary, I try to translate that into more universal images where recognizability and abstraction stands equal. My work deals with daily life, and makes references to art history, mythology or Christian culture, but seen from a different perspective, the female gaze.