All that remains

2025 – work-in-progress
Series of silk-screen prints with selfmade pigment, mounted on aluminium, 70cm in diameter

All that remains is a series of round silk-screen prints that were made with selfmade pigment from charcoal that was collected in former wildfire areas in The Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. This series is the result of a collaboration with anthracologist and archaeologist Radek Grabowski. Anthracology is a subdiscipline of archeobotany, and is the study and identification of charcoal, based on wood anatomy. Through microscopic research, the tree species of the collected charcoal were identified. The microscopic images subsequently form the basis of the screen prints, which were created using pulverized charcoal as pigment. All that remains identifies and visualizes the vanished trees in various former wildfire areas, using the remaining material from the wildfire to depict them.