This series is a microcosm of the Dutch landscape, where the natural and artificial elements control and react with each other. Landscape thus encompasses more than just our natural surroundings, but all that is permanent and statically bound to the Earth.
Informed by the great Dutch landscape painters of past centuries, these photographs document a landscape where human elements are undivorcable from the natural. We are presented with a redefinition of landscape which encompasses all that is around us.
I sought out landscapes which appeared natural at first, but were actually almost entirely constructed by human beings—yet each of these places still exhibited the same beauty, stillness and patient timelessness that society-at-large reveres in the conventionally beautiful natural landscape. My images therefore separate the nostalgia and romance of nature from the pure geometric forms in landscape, which begs a reassessment of the generally prescribed concept of beauty.