In 2019 I finished Graphic Design at KABK. My thesis, Fluisterend Plakwerk (The Quiet Collage), grew out of an internship at the Verbeke Foundation in Kemzeke, Belgium.

I followed my fascination for collage back to the way my head works: pulling fragments together: quick, impulsive and intuitively. Words, people, images, events click into place in flashes; sometimes that helps, often it overwhelms. Collage lets me lift those bits out of the rush and shuffle them into something that feels like order, like meaning.

While writing I talked with Geert Verbeke. For him life is a collage op grote schaal (collage on a life‑sized scale). Not a technique but a mindset: collect, stack, react, release.

So the thesis circles around my inner forces of control and chaos, list‑making and letting go. I look at the Verbeke Foundation and the Eco‑Cathedral as places where time, decay, and accident get free rein.

It’s a conversation, mostly with myself, sometimes with others, a reflection. A way to understand why I keep cutting, pasting, and letting go.

Read the entire thesis (in Dutch) here.