Layered Complexity cloth 2

Three layers, 18 x 80 cm, 8/2 cotton, mid-February – May.Nederlandse versie hier. For the second cloth, I decided to weave in three layers. Twenty-four shafts in two blocks meant I could use a maximum of four shafts per layer. My brain had to work even harder, because three layers mean even more calculations and […]

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Layered Complexity cloth 1

Two layers, 17 x 25 cm, 8/2 cotton, January – mid-February 2026.Nederlandse versie hier. Layered Complexity was a study of complex weaving in multiple layers. With this research I added a new dimension to my relatively new weaving practice. I explored the possibility of creating color changes without the ever-present warp intermingling with the weft,

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Newsletter Spring 2026

We’re actually already pretty much in summer, but I can still just about get away with sending out my spring newsletter… It’s a pretty packed newsletter, though, because I kept putting off writing it.The months just flew by! KaboomIt was so nice to be invited to show my film A Story of Unfolding Wings at

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Yarn Store online!

I started a yarn store! I fell in love with Bockens weaving yarns from Sweden. Their cotton is soft and the colors are amazing, and I love that they have 65 colors of cotton (both 8/2 and 16/2)! Since they’re not available in the Netherlands I decided to start my own yarn shop. To give

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Newsletter Feb 2026

An extra newsletter, because my year started with two doses of good news! I am participating in the group exhibition TUSSENVORMEN – between art and objects by Unit4Art. And Kaboom Animation festival has included A Story of Unfolding Wings in a special program filled with textile animation. Unit4ArtThe opening at Unit4Art is this Sunday at

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Newsletter Winter 2025

Nederlandse versie hier. After a period of many changes and weaves, it’s suddenly almost Christmas again! So it’s time for a newsletter… And for the cinema, because on Saturday 13 December, A Story of Unfolding Wings will be screened at Filmhuis Den Haag as part of the Roots Film Festival. You can order tickets here.

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Newsletter September ’25

GRAW Rotterdam Nederlandse versie hier. On the weekend of September 20 and 21 it’s time again for the Great Rotterdam Atelier Weekend. I don’t have a studio of my own right now, but I’m lucky to join Marleen de Puydt and Nonuko Hayashi in their shared space DOT! You’ll find my newest series Ocular Glitches

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Glitching Mermaids

A series of now three canvases from one warp, with the experiment of creating different impressions by varying patterns and colors. The patterns used in the fabrics are mostly further developed patterns based on my Weaving Glitches research.Each fabric has its own subtitle. From left to right in this portfolio: Candy, Distortion and Ocean. Size

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Ocular Glitches

Series of smaller weaves in which I try to find visual patterns with minimal color combinations. The basis of these fabrics is derived from Ocular Aurora but with more variation in the patterns and colors. This ongoing research is also a challenge to present my works in series, always returning to my own imaginary glitches

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A Story of Unfolding Wings

A Story of Unfolding Wings is a short stop-motion film made entirely from hand-woven frames. It tells the story of my journey as a trans woman. About living under a male mask, discovering and removing that mask. Waiting on the waiting list, the diagnostic phase, and the transition that followed. The film aims to show

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Glitching Threads

Glitching Threads is a direct follow up on my Weaving Glitches research. It’s a commissioned work, but with full freedom on the design. It is based on my first Weaving Glitches weave. I did add some variations in patterns and angles off the patterns I did not try before. Also I made some variations using

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Newsletter April ’25

A Story of Unfolding Wings Nederlandse versie hier. In the last few months, everything has come together. I wove a fifth cloth for the chapters Unmasked and Serenity, I went with Noa to the textile workshop NOOF in Eindhoven to embroider the titles, and Eefje played in the final soundtrack recordings, with Jasper’s help. And

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Close-up – Weaving Glitches 03

Nederlandse versie hier. In the third cloth I wove for my Weaving Glitches research, I wanted to explore even further how to weave particular patterns and structures on sixteen shafts. The construction of the warp consists of five lanes, each of which is a kind of mixture of the network and echo weaving technique. Actually,

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Close-up – Weaving Glitches 02

Nederlandse versie hier. Obsessed with the little patterns I found in cloth one, I decided to devote the second cloth to that. But then on sixteen shafts, because my new loom was in. What fascinated me about the patterns was, on the one hand, how some were almost pixel-like, as can occur with graphic glitches.

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Weaving Glitches cloth one

A number of factors glitched when I was composed in my mother’s womb. I think my love of glitches arose from my struggles in society when I did not yet know for myself that my identity was so diverse and interesting. When I look in the mirror now I see mostly my femininity, but also

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