Cloud of Witnesses

As a designer I believe in an off and on modus, a giving and taking to and from my environment. Like a sponge I absorb and try to give meaning throughout the numerous ways graphic design provides me. The things that make me mad, sad, or sometimes I simply don’t understand. Everything goes into the system called my brain.
The way I approach my work process is like the art of oration. I usurp, I consume and spit back out into the world. I aim to tell stories, change views, raise questions. Maybe kick and stomp a little. My work is my banner, my manifestation. I scream without having to raise my voice for all the things I find are in need of a voice. A voice in the shape of an image.

Within five years I hope to graduate from the Sandberg Institute. Before this I am to work at different studios, make a lot of work that shows who I am as a designer and who I am after my time at the academy. I also want to start a collective, a group of people that represent the different areas within design. Together we organize expositions, screenings, workshops and readings.
After two years of studying at the Sandberg Institute I hope to find a studio that really understands my point of view, a studio that wants to demonstrate and protest with me throughout design.

During my time at the academy I have learned to be receptive to feedback. By exchanging ideas, discussing, talking with both teachers and classmates you can arrive at brand new insights. This can lead to better results and a different way of looking at your own work. The main thing I have learned is that it is okay to ask for help, asking for help is the thing that allows you to learn.

Film screening and installation at Open Studio van de Bovenburen, curated and exposed at Academie Galerie for Copy Nature, curated Multiplicity at LE:EN, fashion show at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam, exposed at LAB111 with Actiefonds, exposed for Hokjesgeest in Den Haag.