In this project I explore the love–hate relationship many people have with their bodies by visualizing ideas and fantasies about the body.

As a psychologist, I hear how people experience their bodies, how alienated they feel from them, how they (would like to) mutilate or reshape them, and how their bodies do not align with their sexual experience. This alienation from the body and the longing for a different body are themes I investigate in my images.By placing all the images against a black background and portraying people alone, without others, the felt loneliness of individuals becomes clear.

The images evoke a magical realism in which the normal and the abnormal intertwine, and the malleability of the body is called into question. Possibilities and impossibilities converge, giving rise to a new embodied reality.