Places as Experiences

I hold a PhD in decision theory and behavioural economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam, and later worked as a spatial scientist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. My academic years were shaped by sustained engagement with how people perceive uncertainty, make decisions, and move through space. Working with theoretical frameworks and empirical research, I learned to approach complexity with precision, patience, and methodological care. Over time, my interest shifted from modelling behaviour to understanding how ambiguity is actually lived — how space is experienced rather than simply measured.

Today, research forms the backbone of my artistic practice. I work through long-term, process-based projects that combine fieldwork, photography, writing, and publishing. I use research to frame questions, structure observations, and build layered narratives across images, materials, and texts. Rather than producing conclusions, my work creates conditions for attention — allowing experiences of place, time, and belonging to emerge through repetition, material engagement, and collective exchange. In this way, artistic research becomes a way of thinking through making, where knowledge is generated through doing and seeing, and where embodied experience guides both form and meaning.