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I have always been drawn to images.
Photography was my first way of understanding the world, A way of capturing atmospheres and building small visual worlds that revealed more the closer I looked. I found myself returning to this practice most intensely while traveling, especially in places that seemed other worldly to me, like Iceland, norway the maldives.. where landscape and atmosphere became something to move through rather than simply observe.
I didn’t approach it professionally at first. It was simply there as constant way of seeing, collecting moments, light, and fragments without fully knowing why.
Later, through my studies in urban design with a strong architectural and design oriented focus in Berlin, i began to understand composition, atmosphere and space more consciously. I learned how environments are constructed and how elements relate to one another, and how perception can be guided. At the same time, through interdisciplinary studies at the university of arts in berlin, connecting science and art, i became increasingly interested in plants. Not only as visual forms but as living systems that shape and inhabit space.
Through travel and through living in closer connection with nature, something began to come together. Since 2022, being in constant proximity to natural environments – and now living in Hawai’i – has shifted my way of working.
The experience of being within nature, rather than observing it from a distance, changed my perception.
My Hypercollages emerges from this point.
They did feel like they had been forming for a long time without my awareness. A way of bringing together photography, spatial thinking, and an intuitive connection to natural systems into one process.
I work with my own photographic material, building my own “botanical library” with fragments of plants, light, textures, and atmosphere, which I collect over time. In the process of composing I follow both intuition and structure. Images are layered and reconfigured until they begin to form spaces that feel whole.
I am not interested in documenting nature as it appears. What I am drawn to is how it is experienced, as something fluid and constantly in transformation.
In a world that often feels fragmented and disconnected, my work reflects this condition, but also responds to it. Through the act of recomposing fragments into new relationships, I explore the possibility of reconnection as a way of seeing.
For me, these works are not images of nature, They are spaces to enter.
Change is a recurring theme in my work, expressed through the symbolism of flowers and natural textures.
While nature embodies constant transformation, this is something I have not always found easy to navigate in my own life.
Working with these elements becomes a way of approaching change indirectly. Through my artistic process, I observe it more closely and gradually learn to move with it rather than resist it.
