The "Zwin" natural reserve in Belgium, is a strip of land between beach, dunes, mudflats and salt marshes. Plants here have special characteristics (they are called halophytes), as they can resist to salt water and can bear to receive little water for longer than average periods of time. What will happen to this area in a +2° degrees warming scenario? In these pictures Zwin's nature appears to be lit from the inside by a devouring fire. The eerie beauty of an altered Zwin evokes the urgency to act, preventing the +2° scenarios to occur.
In the last four images of this gallery, I enact a parallel between the aesthetics of Jackson Pollock and post impressionist colors, with the genuine pleasure in optical color mixing which digital provides. These naturally abstract landscapes resonate with the essence of 2021: chaos, oppressing anxiety, intrusive thoughts. Yet, just slightly below the first visible layer, new life, new force prepares to grow.
The materiality of these works is enhanced by an an immersive print, based on a metallic photochemical emulsion.