Discovering the rural Netherlands was a search deeply connected to strangeness and beauty. Often seeing the vernacular aspects of the Dutch landscape which from my outsider perspective seemed, at first, like imperfections, stemming out of my idea of Dutch landscape. Over time I came to think of them as traces of the people past and present who inhabited it, leaving behind bits of their culture and character in the way they interacted with their environment and how they shaped it. Gradually changing land into landscape, we see today, making it unmistakably Dutch.
