Depression

2025 / single-channel video + 1 photograph / colour / silent

A depression in a small field behind our apartment continuously changes with the weather: it fills up when it rains and exists as a pool, but only for a short time. The ground swallows its ambition as a small lake and then it lies dormant in an increasingly dry state, surrounded by brown grass, until it rains again. The Netherlands is known for being a wet country, but this has changed since my childhood. The harsh brown-tinted grasses of French or Italian camping sites has increasingly invaded my daily landscape. News of water shortages pop up with alarming regularity. This pit, which I greet every day when I wake up, is an acute reminder of how long it has been since it last rained.

Individual Works

• Depression Fleeting single-channel video / 4'57" (cont. loop) / colour (4:3) / silent
• Depression Stasis analogue photograph / colour