Broken Flowers
This work reflects on a deep and important love, and explores the transformative influence of relationships on people’s lives. The project narrates a deeply personal story, in which universal themes as love, loss, grieving and growing up are shown through.
Ronald and I met in a club in 2006 when we were in our early twenties. From that moment on we were inseparable and in 2008 we decided to travel across Africa in an old Landrover. A month after returning home Ronald's eldest brother committed suicide. We lost our youthful innocence in one fell swoop. After a tumultuous eight years, various big roadtrips, and countless attempts to fix our love, we finally broke up in 2016 while trying to reach India by car.
Now, years later, I look back on the material I made and collected, a treasury of tangible and intangible memories. Without chronology and in an associative way I depict our love story as it is stored in my brain; disjointed fragments revealing the effects of loss and grieving on love.
With Polly, Turkey, 2016
Selfie, Sudan, 2008
Kusje van je ex tentje, email, 2016
Dusty road, Iran, 2016
New Year’s Eve, Rotterdam, 2007
Night sky, Georgia, 2016
Self-portrait, Rotterdam, 2018
Fixing the car, Georgia, 2016
Rock am Ring, Germany, 2006
Cross in the mountains, Georgia, 2016
Altar, Vardzia Cave Monastery, Georgia, 2016
Self-portrait at a wild camping spot, on the way to Tehran, Iran, 2016
Belgium, Ardennes, 2007
Hotel stairwell, Tehran, Iran, 2016
heel de wereld en omstreken, envelope, 2007
Hallway, church mission, Albania, 2016
Belgium, Antwerp, 2006
In the mountains, Georgia, 2016