Deel van de promotie van TUSSENLAND In zomer 2025 organiseer ik live en online momenten voor verbinding en verwondering. Voor mij is mijn nieuwste boek Tussenland een artefact van een groter project, een excuus om […]
Category: Japanese Wood Stories
[Only in Dutch] Mijn nieuw boek Tussenland is uit !
Ik ben trots op elk boek, verhaal en wetenschappelijk artikel, maar Tussenland is toch een van mijn favorieten. Ik heb jaren gesleuteld aan Tussenland. Voor enkele jaren was Tussenland mijn project aan de Vlaamse schrijversacademie. […]
[Only in Dutch] Japanse ervaringen in Vlaanderen en Nederland (speciale actie 07 juni-13 juli 2025)
Ik ben trots op elk boek, verhaal en wetenschappelijk artikel, maar Tussenland is toch een van mijn favorieten. Ik heb jaren gesleuteld aan Tussenland. Voor enkele jaren was Tussenland mijn project aan de Vlaamse schrijversacademie. […]
Wandering in the misty mountains of Taiwan – meeting Tree Lords, and myself in Xitou and Alishan
Last August, I was for some weeks again in Taiwan and spent most of the time in Taipei. Taiwan is full of amazing trees. I could not stop taking pictures. At some point I had […]
Sacred groves in Japan – an ecofeminist reading
In the tapestry of Japan’s spiritual landscape, one finds a rich interplay between nature, culture, and gender. One story that I encountered lies in the ‘utaki’—sacred groves that bear witness to an ancient tradition. Utaki: […]
The Kappa, a Japanese mythical urban water engineer?
And I found another water spirit, this time in Asakusa in Tokyo, when I visited Japan in March 2023. Do you know an urban water engineer? An urban water engineer specializes in the design, implementation, […]
There is no such thing as an Empty Landscape.
Last summer, I was for a week in Czech Republic, visited Prague and dreamed about a rewilded story of Sarka. Afterwards, I participated in the Summer training school programme “Tracing & dwelling in post-anthropocentric landscapes“, […]
DATING WITH PLANTS
Or “three years wood wide web stories” I am 32 years old and I have always been single … in the eyes of my parents. I never introduced someone as my significant other to them. […]
Mythic Fiction with tree spirit elements: The white dream
Mythic fiction? What is this? It’s is literature that is rooted in, inspired by, or that in some way draws from the metaphors, archetypes, symbols, themes of myth, legend, folklore and fairytales. In the 1980s, the […]
It’s VE day. Let’s talk about Nazis and the environment
On 8 May 2020 we, in Europe, celebrate 75 years of victory over fascism. Victory in Europe Day, generally known as VE Day or V-E Day, is a day celebrating the formal acceptance by the […]
Stories from the Wood Wide Web 