Merlijn Wirtz

Rotterdam-based Merlijn Wirtz photographs the fascinating artistic forms of trees once they have been cut. Her photos are unretouched and show the pure beauty of natural wood. If you take the time to look around, you can discover all sorts of things in a pile of tree trunks. Storm damage in the Kralingen forest provided a wealth of visual material. Merlijn combines her photos and writes philosophical poems to accompany them: photography meets poetry. In her books, words and images come together.