‘Help me carry my grief’ is a durational performance which invites participants to help carry my grief. The grief is presented in tangible form as a clay mountain. Visitors are invited to take what they can hold, however small. The can mould it, shape it, leave it, or pass it on but once they decide to take a piece, they cannot give it back.

'Trooststoet’ - ‘procession of comfort’ starts with a stop motion film which describes the different shapes and forms of comfort. Participants then asked to write about or discuss what brings them comfort. What does comfort look like, sound like, feel like? They then  transform these thoughts  into visual form as a comfort banner.

'Thread by thread I will speak again' is the research project I presented for the Advanced master of research in art in a social political context. Throughout this year I explored the material language of grief. In my research I struggled and played with the duality of being silenced and silencing myself. The presentation included a tactile publication, a voice recording, a small embroidered banner and a large embroidered banner with hidden envelope with letter at the back and a sculpture.

‘Let’s walk each other home’ is a workshop that explores the communal language of grief through storytelling and tactile memory. Participants are guided through memories to unravel their grief, write and share their story and then gift it to the body of grief by way of embroidery.

'Touching the city and letting it touch me' is a movie collage that questions what my grief is made of. (Loss of people, unmet needs, no mirroring, existential loneliness, sorrow of the world, hypervigilance, trust in others, lost memories, collapse of the family ideal, shame of emotional and physical abuse,) It gives grief a physical form and looks for cracks in the blueprint op the city. It offers grief in material form and let's the city hold its grief.

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‘All these arms I have for you but will someone please hold mine?’ Is a set of participatory sculptures that can be displayed in group or individually and require an audience to activate it. They question which psychological needs must be fulfilled for people to feel at home? The works attempt to fulfill a need that may have remained unanswered in the search for this place. The sculptures are tools to embrace, comfort and hold the participant, so they can come home.

‘thuis/home’ is a workshop that activates participants senses of home through art, tactile memory, visual storytelling and sound. Participant draw/draw on memories of home and recreate a space of belonging to carry with them.