Check out the house here.

At the end of 2018 my own personal engagement and curiosity brought me to Suriname for the first time and almost instantly I got magically pulled towards Botopasi; a small village right on the Suriname River, in the middle of the Amazonian rainforest and I fell in love. In 2019, together with local construction workers, I built a small house on poles with an open air studio below. The initial idea was to establish a residency and have creatives stay there to work, think and reflect, while living in the transformative jungle environment and learning about Saramacca culture. I was following the principle that “the West pays for the rest,” and I figured that by collecting rent from the financially stronger Western visitors we could establish a fund for locals to stay in the house for free. But right when the construction on the house was completed, COVID-19 arrived. At the moment it’s mostly tarantulas chilling in the empty wooden house. #tobecontinued