I am originally from Belgium but spent most of my time abroad. I lived a few years in Peru where I started my career as graphic designer, before deciding to come back to Europe to study at Design Academy Eindhoven. Since graduation I have been based in Amsterdam. Next to my studies I started developing my practice as a visual designer. This allowed me to swing between graphic work and other design projects, and I could apply my school research into commissioned work for music labels and independent publications. In my current projects, the source material is often found, digital images that I extrapolate into objects through layers of reformatting, delineating the boundaries between digital and physical representations.

I am originally from Belgium but spent most of my time abroad. I lived a few years in Peru where I started my career as graphic designer, before deciding to come back to Europe to study at Design Academy Eindhoven. Since graduation I have been based in Amsterdam. Next to my studies I started developing my practice as a visual designer. This allowed me to swing between graphic work and other design projects, and I could apply my school research into commissioned work for music labels and independent publications. In my current projects, the source material is often found, digital images that I extrapolate into objects through layers of reformatting, delineating the boundaries between digital and physical representations.

To bridge the step between 2D and 3D, I mainly work with 3D printing. The open source concept around the medium makes it really rich, always offering new materials, new features to keep blurring the boundaries between physical and digital. The magic around it is that 3D printing can be used as the final outcome but also as a step during the process and thus generate endless possibilities to create.

I started my graduation project with the mindset to take that special time to try to find my own methodology and an autonomy during the making process (as it was Covid-time and I went through the frustration of not having access to any workshop to properly make things). Driven by the idea of learning by doing - and failing, I started to experiment with 3D printing. After some tests settings and material exploration, I found a visual connection with lace craft. That was the starting point of my graduation project. Between visual research and material exploration, I developed 3 computer textiles depicting endangered European flowers and a publication showing the relation between traditional lace making and my “Neo-lace”.

My graduation project was the starting point of a material research and a personal methodology of using 3D printing for flat surface outcomes. I am now looking for fundings to keep developing the project collaborating directly with lace crafters, to connect tradition and knowledge with new technologies.

Many to Many, as a collective started last summer when I received an invitation for a self–initiated workshop created by five German female designers. They brought together 10 female artists and designers, to escape from the digital masses and enter into the physical world of a place - the Genius Loci of the former Stuben Monastery at Bremm, a small village alongside the Moselle. We, Lisa Ertel, Jenna Kaes, Hannah Kuhlmann, Juliana Maurer, Anne-Sophie Oberkrome, Clara Schweers, Kurina Sohn, Tatjana Stürmer, Adele Vivet and me met in Bremm for a 10 days workshop and embarked on a journey of self-reflection, creative exchange, and learning. The resulting artworks—which were later presented under the name ‘Genius Loci’—are based on a collection of stories and facts about the location and its surroundings, as well as some personal experiences during their stay, and represent our shared creative voice.