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eefje

...luminosity...

About Me

..Belgian-american designer making spaces, places, gardens, buildings and interiors. I love making beauty above all else and am working on setting up my own design-build studio + workshop. My continual dream is to make the world a better and more beautiful place through inspiring, well-crafted and life-sustaining design that combines spirituality, beauty and positive social connectedness. Like Rainer Maria Rilke once wrote: "I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future".

My Interests

art, architecture, design, yoga, kundalini, zen, shamanism, energy medicine, messages from my third eye, fluidity, self-actualization...

I'd like to meet:

artists, muses, saints and good hearts!

Music:

Salif Keita, Cezaria Evora, Feist, Nina Simone, Al Green, Avro Part, Emilou Harris, Bill Frisell, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Imogen Heap, Zoe Keating, Johnny Cash, Ravi Shankar, Abba, Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Stevie Wonder, Leele James, Bjork, Tom Waits, Norah Jones, Amos Lee, Chopin, Vivaldi, Lyle Lovett, Black Eyed Peas, Miles Davis, Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, Willie Nelson, Prince, Bob Marley, Madonna (some), Bonnie Rait, Lauryn Hill, Django Reinhardt, Youssou N'dour, Papa Wembe, Iron and Wine, Jai Uttal, and of course Iron and the Albatross (249's very own...)

Movies:

Hero, Woman of Water, Spirited Away, Neverending Story, Sex and Lucia, Princess and the warrior, Farinelli, Farewell my concubine, Amadeus, Microcosmos, Born into brothels, Color Purple, Flashdance (my favorite childhood movie!), Gattaca, ET, Soilent green, Underground, Before and after Sunrise, In the mood for love, Until the end of the world, Lisbon story (and any other early Wim Wenders), La vie sur terre (gorgeous!), Three Times, Into the Sound,...

Books:

einstein's dreams, eat+pray+love, ecocities, letters to a young poet, sex of architecture, a hut of one's own, light on yoga, everyone eats well in belgium ;) , slow and difficult soups, wherever you go-there you are, god of small things...

Heroes:

...those who enter their own hearts, correct what needs correcting and share their gifts with the world...