Throughout the years I have been writing poetry. I have also been taking photographs most of my life and in recent years I have rediscovered this passion. Meanwhile I am a licensed photographer and now I am studying photographic art at the Art Academy in Bruges. On the one hand I am trying to link photography to my poetry, and on the other hand it gives me a new, visual way of expressing myself. As my life has been a chain of what often appear to be coincidences, so my photos sometimes seem to consist of visual coincidences, where I am the innocent bystander, the silent witness, who struggles to hold on to something that can never be truly saved. The ultimate lesson, as always, is to let go...