VALUE in Ephemeral things
Freedom
Understanding
translation
BEING NOWHERE
WE ARE CAMELEONs
LEARNING ABOUT YOUR ORIGINALITY AND VISION
know what that is Life
ADAPTATION → CHANGE → EXPERIENCE → GROWTH → WISDOM → ♡
I HAVE BECOME A REALLY GOOD LIAR
TRYING TO ADAPT TO THIS PLANET
ADAPTATION NOTHING IN ME EVERYTHING OUTSIDE ME
Talk after talk listen to my voice
I DON'T THINK I WILL EVER REALLY ADAPT
NEW DAD NOT TO BE HOW I AM AS A CHILD
BUT TO BE GOOD GIRL
STILL, 20 YEARS BEING NICE TO HIM
OKAY HE IS A PERSON
Water, best thing ever
Trying to be interesting to people I don't know
learning to be alone
mutation
changing mental habits
TO BE HAPPY ALONE
Learning how to kiss 3 times on cheek in Netherlands when you are only used to hand shakes
X'ING THE LINE
RMS. OMRAH
SHARKS
SENTRY
BURMA
SUN BURNED FEET
I am adop ted
ACCEPT DIFFERENCE AND ACCEPT YOURSELF
coming to a new place, saying the right things
looking the right way, being who you are
expressing yourself, staying true to yourself
Be happy Be you
to blend in?
to stick out?
like yourself, love yourself but be humble
Whenever I am away from my home
I feel even more attached to it.
I try to go with the flow
But I never let go of myself or my true belief
And sometimes the alternative
turns out to be the best. Follow with your heart.
It will tell you where to go
AT FAMILY DINNER WITH OTHER RELATIVES →
WE DON'T ALWAYS AGREE.
MAKES ME ANGRY INSIDE
ADAPTATION IT IS GIVING SOMETHING OFF YOU
WHEN I HEAR THE WORD I THINK OF NATURE
I have huge respect 4 people who have adapted to another country, language. Speaking English as 1st language it is so easy to think that you don't have 2 adapt, that others should adapt to you. This is wrong + I realise it so much more when I come to another country + try to speak in another language.
My responsibility to myself
Can I adapt? Of course
I can't say I blame "but this is how I am"
always "in-between"
isolated, alienated, disconnected
accepted, understood, connected
Fish Tank
FROM PARIS
TO MILAN
TO STCKHOLM
Why do people think adaptation is something negative? Adaptation can also be a way to understand another person. In that sense adaptation can be something good!
PEOPLE ARE CONSIDERED to be the best aNiMALS to adapting
Can feel
hurtful
or maybe
to find home
Adaptation is a balance act between staying me and becoming you.
TO WORK IN A FEMALE DOMINATED WORKPLACE MAKES YOU ADAPT...
Trying to adapt to my new male dominated workplace was tough. I never became one of the guys. I liked working there though.
The word adaptation makes me think of "natural selection"
go with the flow
to be responsive to oneself and others
being humble or being self-effacing?
balance
to give & to take
balance compromise
collecting voices (installation) / 2011
wood, ink, charcoal, nail, visitor’s experience of adaptation
Today, global migration is becoming a mass-experience and people cross over borders in an ever more light and casual way.
As many of the migration experienced today are voluntary, the process of adapting to a new environment becomes a process you simply ‘deal with it’, even though it involves many struggles and insecurity.
The installation collecting voices was a project to create a space to share the experience of adaptation. Visitors were asked to write their experience of adaptation on the blue wooden cube and place it on the wall.
The space eventually became a library of the experience.