Spieker is an ongoing exploration of food-preserving architecture and the relationship between people, landscape and harvest.
Categories: film · photography · installation · research
During this residency, selected by Media Art Fryslân and Media Art Days Ringkøbing, I continued my research into indigenous granaries and their relationship to landscape, cycles and community.
Categories: film · photography · installation · research
Short documentary (9 min.) in which I follow landscape historian Jeroen Wiersma during his research in one of the last remaining traditional ditch-land farming areas of Fryslân. A poetic portrait that reflects on how many generations will still be able to appreciate this landscape’s unique value.
Categories: Film · Research
Experimental film in which movement and stillness converge into abstract, almost meditative forms. A visual exploration of rhythm and absence.
Categories: Film · Installation · Research
A series of portraits in which stillness and presence become tangible, captured through an intimate encounter with the other.
Categories: Photography
Images made during a period of inner stillness and slowing down. photographs that invite the viewer to experience the landscape as an inner space.
Categories: Photography
Categories: Photography
Portrait of the last fishermen of Laaxum. Two brothers who continue the generations-long tradition of the Laaxumer bot, surrounded by quiet waters and an uncertain future.
Categories: Photography · Documentary
Meaify — the word used by Pacific navigators for the art of reading water. This ongoing series is inspired by Tristan Gooley’s book How to Read Water.
Categories: Photography · Research
Portrait of an old farmer with three helpers, sixteen cows, four horses, six calves and a cat. In his self-built farmhouse, surrounded by bird-rich land, he lived with simplicity and devotion.
Categories: Photography · Documentary
Sytske Hoogterp 