Last week, I gave a guest lecture at Wageningen University and Research (WUR).
We explored how our relationship with the natural world is shaped by both our personal experiences and our collective understanding of nature — informed by cultural traditions such as art, science, literature, and spirituality.

Through drawings, photographs, and excerpts from journals, I shared how physical and mental experiences with landscapes are part of my art practice — to better understand our (bodily) connection with it.

We did a creative writing exercise inspired by a drawing series I’m currently working on: Birth of a Stone, Death of a Thinker. Based on a photo I took in 2023 of an unstable mountain ridge in the Alps, students imagined what it would be like to be one of these stones.
It was wonderful to hear the beautiful, imaginative short stories; from a stone that might end as a heartbroken sand grain, to a stone born from the tears of its mountain parents.

Many thanks to Norbert Peeters for the invitation!