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I have a natural and passionate need to experience and see the world through visual means. It’s a relief to know that I don’t always have to talk, but rather that I can just feel and see. It’s hard for me to shut away this passionate feeling in a box where I can’t feel it or experience it because it keeps rising up again, like a breath out of the left side of the box, and it attaches itself to me. This feeling is just like any body part that’s a natural part of me and always stays with me. I feel that important events happen in a person’s life, chapters and situations in life that tell me about the life we’re living right now. These situations tell me so much about how people care about each other, how they care about themselves, and what things feel like to them at any given moment. I’m interested in all of those little moments in which we face each other, for example when we’re face-to-face and silent, and how we’re present to each other in different situations. I’m interested in the gaze of living beings, and the thoughts behind that gaze. I try to capture those thoughts using photography, and I usually call that thought a feeling. I’m inspired by people and especially by what we can’t easily see – human destinies, tensions between people, feeling threatened and in danger on the one hand, and things like sensuality, love, friendship, family ties, and nurturing and caring for others on the other.