ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The project ‘A memory present’ consist of digital collages I made to discover my style as an artist. I started with researching a lot of paintings from the 17th century. Specifically looking at the use of lights and shadows, as well as the combination of mostly black and white clothing on a dark background. Those paintings combine a heavy contrast with ‘ton-sur-ton’ tones that is very inspiring to me. I wanted to use these influences to give my work this very specific feel. Work that feels like seeing a memory of a time long gone, whilst being modern and new.

AUTHOR
My work is greatly influenced by my background in fashion. I studied fashion in The Hague(2012-2014) and in Antwerp (2014-2017). During my studies, whilst designing clothing, I developed a technique I could call my own. I mainly used mixed media and designed garments by making fashion-collages.

In 2019 I finished the project "Oh, but this is typically dutch". A project that focused on contemporary nationalism and the philosophical question "what does it mean when someone claims something to be typically dutch or an old tradition?"
I researched typical dutch clothing, with the curled women's bonnets as my main inspiration. I used old images to reinvent the "typical" into a modern design.

In 2020 I wanted to focus less on fashion and more on photography. It made me push the boundaries of shaping ideas and lead me to focusing more on the aesthetics of an image and less on the shape of the garments. I started making a lot of different works to develop my style as a photographer/digital artist.
I reshape and use my own pictures as well as already existing images. I use these almost like an artist uses paint. I reshape and edit them, evolving them into something new. A small piece of fabric can become a skirt or even a piece of clothing. Even the models for example are non-existing, constructed with elements of multiple people as well as a digitally painted layer. My work is a mixture of photography, collage-art and painting. I want my work to appear as a depiction of something real, but at the same time have some elements emphasizing it being a digital collage, something non existing. Finding an interesting balance between reality and imagination.

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