I construct my images with elements from the real world. Like a set builder, but without moving the pieces and without any staging. I work with what is there-the everyday-because I want to stay close to the reality. It is that reality that includes everything already.

When I was about 20 years old, two things happened that influenced my view of the world and how I photograph. Through my studies, I came into contact with the philosophy of 'relativism' and at the same period, my mother died.

From then on, I became fascinated by 'the hustle and bustle of man'. We build, create, work. We 'struggle' day in and day out, through all times. We are pursuing identities and want to be seen; to be relevant. 
But why, really? Where does it lead? They are frantic attempts to make sense of it all, knowing that everything will perish anyway. We know this deep inside, we sometimes feel it.

I capture it, show it. And the ambiguous thing is that for me, this recording is also an attempt to make sense of it. 
I do so because it supports me in my own 'battle' with impermanence. I look for that motif around me, I can see it in the subjects I photograph. 
I feel a lot of sympathy for these things and people and give it a platform.

It is actually Cervantes' story of Don Quixote that I am coming to understand and appreciate more and more...