With a cub's eyeview I lay on an unknown landscape.

The cold caressed my snoot while the wind blew snowflakes in my face.

An echo of howls approached my ears (earcup/conch).

A pack of wolves ran towards me.

They howled whilst their fur danced in the wind.

They let the snow dissipate amidst the stars.

Underneath their legs there shone the calm northern lights.

 

This moment felt like my warm blanket.

Like a family, loving, protecting and caressing me. 

 

When I woke up from that dream I only wanted one thing: to relive this intense experience again. It was a magical moment in which I seemed to be a part of everything and everything seemed to be a part of me.

 

Every human being naturally has primal communicative skills, which, as with dogs, were lost by domestication. With these primal skills we can create a communicative connection with ourselves and our environment using our sensory powers. I don't want to be a domesticated dog, I rather feel like a young, wild she-wolf who tries to rediscover these communication skills to connect beautifully with everything around her.

 

It is from this sense of interconnectedness I want to create an artistic movement in which I create my own pack, ever moving, ever growing through changing environments and situations, in which positioning occurs naturally.

 

With a palette of various materials I visit public places like city parks, woodlands or squares and consider these environments like a canvas in which I can paint my own landscapes. These landscapes function as a first way of communicating so that I can start an artistic movement through which the environment, it's citizens, myself and my work merge together in a moment of spontaneity, expression and adventure.

 

My art receives its meaning through so many distinctive elements, that it could never solely be captured in a painting. Rather it is a continuous movement, ever wanting to raise itself to the next level. And in this movement in which all contexts never stop changing, time will lead us to a natural positioning towards and in relation to everything.

I tend to call myself the alpha she-wolf,  using artistic practice to lead her self-created pack members, other people and animals to a land where daily patterns and habits are transmuted to moments of attention, connection and a sense of wonder.

 

However, my 'wolfdream' merely induced my search for a loving connection.

I wore a glass wolfmask, now cracking open; a thousand shards cutting through my work.

Because of this, the practice has become it's own alpha, a huge independent entity, ever moving forward and shapeshifting.

 

Through an artistic movement I create my own environments, because I'm looking for a similar ultimate connection like the one from the 'wolfdream'.  It's not about the idea of a pack, but rather about the unity which emerges from that movement in which I challenge myself to establish a connection between the audience and my work.