Last Monday I gave a lecture at the group exhibition LUKU/ … in the Amstelkerk (Amstel Church) about my connection as an artist with Suriname starting with my work as a video art teacher at AHKCO and Nola Hatterman Art Academy (Paramaribo, 2009), as a photography teacher for children at Marcel Pinas’ Tembe Art Studio in (Moengo, 2010) and my artist residency in along the Waterkant / duo-exhibition on collaboration with Rinaldo Klas in Readytex Art Gallery (Paramaribo, 2019).