6-10-2026
When I walk or work in nature, I often shift my perception to different scales: from a small stone to a mountain, from an eagle to an ant. It is a game I play — imagining how the world looks through their eyes, and how they see us. It helps me put myself in a different relation with the world around me, and to relativise when I am too caught up in a negative stream of thoughts.
Education is a way for me to stay hopeful in the times we live in. Teaching young adults to care for our green world is something at a scale I can manage — compared to changing the whole world. And I see it helps them develop their connections, intentions, and ideas about themselves and the world they live in.
When I design a garden, I practice this same scale-game: creating a natural space not only for the humans who walk and interact with it, but also for the animal world — a shared space that raises the quality of the place and becomes a healthier part of the earth.
I believe our behaviour towards the environment will change when we begin to establish a more affectionate relationship with all the living beings on this planet. This takes place on an intimate and sensory level within ourselves, a place that can be reached by any form of art, which can move us and create a bridge between our perception and our feelings.
My experience as an art and nature teacher working with young adults who are growing up and live in a principally urban world has shown me that as soon as they enter a natural environment their energy shifts. I think it is important that they learn that when they open themselves in a sensitive way to nature, they can start to feel how natural their connection with her actually is. I want to make them aware of the quality this connection brings them, like concentration, tranquillity, a sensation of belonging, inspiration.
The earth is an incredible creative source and force. As soon as you zoom in, you can see the enormous amount of diversity in structures, textures, colours, densities, dimensions, and strategies plants and animals use to live, survive and adapt to constant change. Everything has already been invented by nature, and forms and structures that work perfectly have always inspired humanity in any form of expression. Think of: engineers, artists, inventors, architects, composers, scientists...
I teach them to co-create with nature through imagination, using its materials, inspiration, and sensory experiences to help them visualize their connection to her. What colour is that bird’s sound, and how would you draw this sound or describe it in words? How do you remember the smell or the feeling of walking on sand instead of pavement? Paint with your eyes closed, walk in silence and become aware of what captures your eye, ear, nose or skin.
My work is focused on this way of connecting and reflect on how these moments move you. What do these experiences teach you or what do they reveal? They aim to be a way to enter a hidden reality that is not only perceived through sight. They create a new awareness and kinship between us and nature. The visual expressions of these discoveries have this ability too, they communicate with the beholders and will touch something in them, hopefully inviting them to feel a deeper bond with our natural world and understand they are responsible for it as well.
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