In the beginning of October 2010 I have been working for one week in the artist in residence location of artist Elizabeth de Vaal, called VOLpension in Pecsbagota, South West Hongary. The community of the village offered an old abandoned house to the artists that came to work in the village.

The artist in residence house was quite luxerious, and the surrounding exremely beautiful, especially because it was autumn.

The old house in which I was allowed to work was very ruinous; it had been abandoned for five years. The latest inhabitant was Rozsa Neni, a Roma woman that lived there alone until she died, caused by cold.

Together with my boyfriend Vic I got to know the deserted house as a place in which reveries come easily. We took pictures, filmed, taped sounds, speculated, etc. Vic found a music tape that was completely covered with dust, so that you can get a glimpse of the former atmosphere of Rozsa Neni (in the documentation below you can hear the first song, in the clip with the picture of the tape; there is no motion, just sound).

Just before our arrival in the village, almost all of Rozsa Neni's belongings had been burned at the field next to her house. The fire actually selected material for us to work with: little things that were kept in holes, furniture that was too heavy to move, and the walls of the house itself.

I want to make a collection of works, but the the ideas are still in a very early stage.