To Touch the Map Until It Becomes Landscape
A series of handmade recycled paper landscapes / Commissioned by the Finance Department of Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
What happens when paper becomes a soft tactile map, a heterogenous material topography of fibres, a narrative surface that becomes the landscape where it was made and lives on?
Each piece is made from recycled pulp from paper packaging and offcuts collected over months and sorted by colour – and poured by hand into wooden moulds to form satellite images of The Hague’s three dunes: Kijkduin, Westduinpark and Oostduinpark.
The artworks blend the views of the dunes from above, and those from within, from a walker’s point of view – through images gathered on site and embedded as texture. As if ascending and descending the dunes, shifting between intimate deep closeness to the landscape and its aerial perspective – entangling viewpoints that collapse distance into material texture.
The work captures the landscape of the dunes beyond only the plants and colours, but their shadows in the sand, their ephemeral animal footprints, their seasons simultaneously held in a single paper surface that softens, absorbs and very slowly changes shape as a landscape of its own.


























