HER IS WE

I photographed my niece, Maria Elisabeth van Heesewijk, who became both muse and collaborator in an intimate act of creation. As artist and subject, we blurred the boundaries between self-representation and shared vision, stepping into a world where history and personal mythology intertwined. 

Wearing masks and corsets of her own making, she inhabited a space where identity was both revealed and obscured, shaped and redefined. Each image does not simply capture her likeness but suspends a fleeting presence caught in the tension between concealment and revelation. 

This exchange was not just an artistic process but a conversation one of transformation, vulnerability, and the alchemy of the gaze. Here, the mask does not silence; it speaks. The corset does not constrain; it sculpts.

Strength and fragility, empowerment and surrender coexist in delicate balance. Feminine yet defiant, these images do not seek to define but to evoke a self that is layered, shifting, and beautifully elusive.