all forgotten things
(and the sound of a quintillion tiny shivering leaves)

2023

Booklet, pressed plants, seeds, rocks

Presented at the Gerrit Rietveld Graduation Show and selected by the Thesis Committee for Rietveld Review(ed)

About plant-breeding and lost keys,
rock particles and bread-baking,
remembering and forgetting,
taxonomy and supermarkets,
seeds, tea bags, raindrops
and walking.

all forgotten things (and the sound of a quintillion tiny shivering leaves) is an autofictional narrative that weaves together personal storytelling and ecological reflection. Blending poetic language with critical insight, it explores contemporary approaches to environmental care, addressing themes of alienation and a deep yearning for what lies beyond the urban landscape.

After waking up one morning with the feeling of having forgotten something, I am taken on an exploratory journey leading through endless side-tracks, personal reflections, (his)tories, and metaphysical spaces—writing my way into answers while searching for the ‘forgotten thing’ which has slipped from collective memory in the pace of a hyper-productive world.