The Architect of her Orchard

My history is not a just a "story".

I was you, the people-pleaser, overachiever, overexplainer, tutto.

And I had to learn that a boundary is not a suggestion; it is the wall that protects your new orchard from old family roots.

I am a 40-year-old Belgian woman who chose to uproot from Northern Europe to replant under the Sicilian sky.

My work carries that dual geography: the structural precision of my Belgian roots and the human rhythm of the Mediterranean.

At 40, I have learned that a tree does not need a flawless canopy to be powerful.

It simply needs to be deeply rooted in its own soil, and to be undisturbed by the shadows of others.