My name is Geertrui, I was born in the year 2000 and I live in the Hageland region in Belgium.

As an artist, I believe that a visual work should be visually interesting in its own right, even without the background story or the ‘explanation’ that might accompany it. Even without a title, without a label providing an explanation, and without any interpretation, the viewer should be intrigued by a work. The story behind the work naturally often adds an extra dimension, but it should not be a prerequisite for a work to be interesting. This, therefore, is also what I strive for in my own works.

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In the same way, I believe that my identity as an artist begins and ends with my works. As far as I’m concerned, any additional words used to identify me are irrelevant to the value of those works. My personal identity is, of course, not unimportant in my creative process, because I am the one who creates the works, and who I am influences how the work comes into being. My independent works are never separate from myself as a person. But the part of myself that I wish to share with the outside world lies within the artwork itself, not in a set of descriptive words that will never fully encompass the complexity of an individual.