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In my hometown Kalmthout, Belgium, there is a beautiful nature park called the Heide. As long as I can remember it’s my go-to place when I need time and space to think, to feel, to rest, to breathe, to connect.

Because a master project comes along with a lot of stress, fear and disappointment I felt that I needed to choose my project carefully, because these things can often affect me in a very negative way. So I chose an object for my project that, for me, helps with this stress, fear and disappointment. I want to create something that makes the viewer feel the same rest that I feel and admiration that I have for this nature. Also, because nature changes quickly, and we might not have a long time anymore to enjoy it, I believe it is important to create a sort of archive, collection, that can be useful for later generations. So that they can still enjoy the beauty of the Heide. And maybe, hopefully, it will encourage people right now to take more effort in preserving it.

I thought (and am still thinking) of a way to do this as good as possible, since it is still important to keep a certain artistic quality in my work. I started by just taking pictures in the Heide. I liked these pictures, but I felt it was not yet enough. You can go see the pictures under pages - photos. And how I’m trying to put them together in pages - publication.

Then I started to also make sketches whilst walking. And later on I started drawing from the pictures I had taken. I also like these results. You can find them under pages - drawings.

Because I wanted to make some sort of archive I also collect things I find in the Heide. Pretty leaves, mussy branches, bark that fell off... stuff like that. I’m still finding a way to make them visually appealing, but you can check out some that I scanned under pages - findings.

Right now I’m kind off struggling to find a medium to connect them all in a way that makes sense to the viewer.

I’m still taking my walks, collecting interesting things I see. I will keep doing this until I feel everything falls in place. Which I’m sure it will. Nature is an art form on its own.