After 15 years of working as professional creatives, it was time to create just for fun, a play date if you will. No brief, no budget, no client, no judgment, just doing what we love: creating.
These series are the result of - showing up, letting go, opening up to new perspectives, pushing through uncomfortable feelings and freely playing together.
Taking the natural world as a starting point, we draw your attention to the elegant form, colour and texture of these everyday products. Each natural wonder has been discovered in local Amsterdam stores and treated as they should be - beautiful natural art pieces, grown and plucked for us to enjoy in every form.
After 15 years of working as professional creatives, it was time to create just for fun, a play date if you will. No brief, no budget, no client, no judgment, just doing what they love: creating.
This series is the result of - showing up, letting go, opening up to new perspectives, pushing through uncomfortable feelings and freely playing together.
Taking the natural world as a starting point, they draw our attention to the elegant form, colour and texture of these everyday products. Each natural wonder has been discovered in local Amsterdam stores and treated as they should be - beautiful natural art pieces, grown and plucked for us to enjoy in every form.
Everything in our lives starts as a whole and comes to an end through consumption or use. What’s are we left with?
Styling by Saskia van der Klei
Art Direction by Mylene Peron
I didn’t post any work on instagram for almost 2 years. It's not that I had a valid reason, it just kind of happened. It was the morning of March 29th, 2019 and my last post was scheduled for later that day. I was at the hospital with my best friend who was in labor and I found out I was 5 weeks pregnant. It just didn't matter anymore. The likes, the views, the audience engagement, profile clicks, nothing mattered. I was building a human. My pregnancy journey started as I watched another journey come to an end, bringing a beautiful baby girl into this world. It wasn't a conscious decision, but my main focus shifted.
After I found out I was pregnant my focus turned to nourishing my body (with pints of ice cream) and preparing the house for our new arrival (putting hoards of clothes into storage that were no longer practical). But pregnancy sucks. There's no glow, it's sweat. There's no joy, it's imagining the day when this baby is no longer sitting on your bladder and kicking you in the ribs. Building a human is hard work and if any woman says otherwise, she's lying. I had no issues continuing to shoot while pregnant (possibly because my over protective assistants barely let me pick up a stand...), but I still had no desire to post anything. It still wasn't my focus.
And then before I knew it, my daughter was here.
The first year of motherhood. What the f&#k??? (sorry mom). It takes a village. And when the majority of that first year is spent in a global pandemic, locked down, with social restrictions - it still takes a village, you just don't have one available so you have to be your own village. And here I thought pregnancy was hard...hahaha. I won't get into the emotional rollercoaster that is the first year of motherhood or I'd be writing a book, all I will say is if you have a friend who recently had a baby - check in, call, drop by, ask if they need anything, bring over a sandwich. They need you more than they will ever admit. I worked as much as I could that first year. But when I got home from a shoot my energy went to my baby girl, not into building an instagram following.
When I was ready to re-emerge into the social media life, I made this series dedicated to my new life of motherhood.
This series was created with stylist Soraya Basiran to illustrate the relationship between our fashion treasures and the resulting trash that comes with the fashion industry.
My experiment of dropping heavy bottles into water.
After traveling through Japan for a month and falling in love with the Japanese culture, I wanted to create a project to reflect this. You mostly only see origami as the finished product. By unfolding the paper I wanted to show the intricate lines, detail and dedication that goes into each fold.
Playing with the textures of lipstick.
After my second maternity leave, I wanted to do something fun to announce my return to work. All letters were made in 3D with paper and animated with stop motion animation.
A small collection of my favorite things to drink. More (and more and more) to come.
Who puts a Chanel bag upside down? I do.
How can you make basic items from the hardware store look cool? Stevie Wilcox and I were up to the challenge!
Secretly I sometimes like to photograph people also. But only when I can treat it like a still life shoot. These images are in collaboration with The Color hair salons.