The Forest Behind My Fathers House
2024—2025
In the Forest Behind My Father's House is a multi-sensory, letter-based video and text work that explores the entanglements of ecological collapse, inherited belief systems, and queer identity. Situated at the intersection of environmental grief and embodied resistance, my practice draws on lived experience to question dominant systems of land governance, knowledge production, and belonging. Through poetic narration and tools repurposed from surveillance and control (nightvisioncameras, drones and microscopes) I reclaim ways of listening, not only to the land, but to those historically silenced by it. This work invites into a world of layered perspectives, where care and contradiction coexist, and where new relational ethics begin to take root.
Have you ever wondered what might grow from collapse?
How we might learn to listen again — to each other, and to the land that holds us?
This work is a story of return: to nature, to memory, to the body, and to those with supposedly opposing beliefs. It began with the fall of a monocultural forest behind my childhood home in a rural German village. In its ruins, space opened for diversity to grow — and my body remembered where it had always belonged.
Like many, I was raised in monoculture — not only in the trees, but within systems that taught me to distrust my perception and identity. I returned to the village, approaching those I once judged: hunters, rangers, locals. They shared their views, and I listened. I began to see they, too, are caught in the same systems — struggling from different angles.
I wrote letters: to the hunter who rules the land, to the deer hiding in the gorse, to the rock of the witches where I remembered those executed for their knowledge, and to my father, who co-created this story with me. I shapeshifted into different beings, speculating what it might feel like to live beyond this body — and to find deep interconnection between all things.
This is not a clean narrative, but a constellation of fragments, sensations, and things left unsaid. It is my way of listening back — in a complex and wild way, like nature itself.
Collaboration 
This project is a collaboration — with the forest that raised me, with deer sleeping in the gorse of the new grounds, with local hunters and rangers who shared their world. It holds the memory of the witches’ rock I never forgot, the labor of my father, the quiet strength of my neurodivergent mother and sister, and Findus — who taught me what it means to belong.

Sounddesigner
Flurina Mia Häberli

Type designer
Anne-Dauphine Borione
Symposium: The Activated Image
Kunstmuseum Den Haag, 15.04.2025

organised by The Networked Audience research group and in partnership with Fotomuseum Den Haag my work was a visual responedet to Daria Tuminas
With: Andrea Stultiens, Azin Nafarhaghighi, Daria Tuminas, Donald Weber, Julie de Ruijter,
Matteo Montaldo, Nurul Huda Rashid, Patricia Kühfuss, Randa Mirza, Sarah-Rose Antoun, Will Boase.
Photocontest: Inner Visions
Bellcollective x Fotomeyer
Berlin,10.05.2025

Winner of Inner Vision Photocontest at the Female Photo Days in Berlin among 14 other artists and photographers.
Exhibited in Berlin at Fotomeyer.


Installation and Performative Readings 
Graduationshow 2025
Royal Academy of Art
The Hague, 03.-08.07.2025

Zine
— I’ve crafted a self-published zine with a lot of detail and care!!

Printed on 120g silver and snow white paper, it holds:
A visual story
A counter-map of the story
A personal letter
The scent of pine

Each copy is hand-assembled — not mass-produced, but crafted with care and attention.

To celebrate its launch, I’m offering three editions with sliding-scale prices to cover production—meant to stay accessible. You’re welcome to give more, but only if you can or wish.

🌱 Early Bird – from 14 € (sold out)
For the first 10 orders — the full zine with a small surprise inside.

🌿 Standard Edition – from 18 €
The full zine: letter, map, scent, story.

🌳🦌 Supporter Edition – from 25 €
Includes a signed thank-you and a small print on photopaper.

Pick up at my MA Graduation Show (and see the full body of work)
03–08 July
KABK – Master Photography & Society
Prinsessegracht 4, CD.001, 
The Hague, NL

Shipping also possible — E-Mail me for details.
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