THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO
Life is a big journey. Everything seems to be moving faster and faster. With media and technology, everything is moving faster and more. There is so much movement. Full agendas. Learning, making the best version of yourself. And through...
It's good to stop and think about your journey from time to time. Just quiet for a while. Land for a while. Looking around you. Go inside yourself. See and celebrate the beautiful little things.
STILL - I can remember from the first covid lockdown that everything became silent. Time seemed to stand still. No traffic, airplanes. Just people walking. How I loved this. Less vibration and noise. The world in deceleration.
Finally, for a while after years of blood, sweat and tears, I could rebuild a life for myself, give my body a rest. The feeling of going faster than my head can keep up with. Running after myself. Synchronizing for a while again. Letting myself come together.
Covid was not the first time with that my world stood still. In the late 1990s, I got a viral infection. Similar to lung covid. From one moment to the next I could do almost nothing. Before 1999 I had a very busy life.
Apprentice nurse multiple disabled in Zwammerdam. Studies, a relationship that took too much energy. During my vacation in the Ardennes I became ill. Three weeks later my body stopped working. This took 7 years before I started to recover a bit more. Small steps in the right direction started to happen.
This took 7 years before I started to recover a little more. Small steps in the right direction began to take place.
Before I got sick, my life passed me by like an express train. I did not dwell on what was. I didn't really enjoy it. I just kept going. With my spontaneity and curiosity I said yes to everything. Besides that virus a fat burnout. With a willpower and wanting to see everything too positively as a pitfall. Gave everything I had.
During these years my new challenge was to keep moving. In bed all day I certainly wasn't going to do it. Doing one small thing in the house was already the end of my energy.
If you can only choose one thing to do you are going to make very different choices. The choices that are worth falling over the next day. You start looking more closely at the little things around you. Choose something that makes you happy.
I am doing well now anno 2025. After a whole course of doctors and hospitals. Still paying attention to my limits. Walking pharmacy, that is. But my body does it again.
BERLIN - Summer 2023 I was in Berlin with my travel buddy Martijn. What an extraordinary ugly and also beautiful city. I love traveling. Moving forward when you are on the train and looking out the window.
LIGHTBOX - I wanted something more than just a photo. People who know me well also know that I have a thing for lamps. These two together, a new line. So I made a light box behind the photo. Completely adapted to the photo. When you turn it on, the windows light up, giving more depth. Just a little something extra. I love working with my hands, with wood. Actually, I need to make more time for it. I enjoy it so much.
Seconds of my life can still be seen at unit4art. Sunday, May 11, is the last day of the expo Masterpiece of Gouda.
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