Together with social designer Aina Seerden, I teamed up to create a project for the children's art program of Into The Great Wide Open 2022. The festival takes place on Vlieland, an island where more birds reside than humans. But during the festival, a large number of people flock to the island, and we wondered how the birds would perceive it.

"Over the next few days, they will flock again," said Professor Spoonbill. "Who?" asked Oystercatcher Sieb. The mysterious bird looked at her and replied, "The humans...."

In the story, Professor Spoonbill is the founder of the peculiar nest at the ITGWO festival grounds. Other birds often consider her crazy because she is a professor in human studies. Humans fascinate her. She cannot fathom how these two-legged, featherless creatures can create and destroy so many beautiful things. In the bird world, little is known about these strange, bald beings. During ITGWO, a large swarm of humans descended upon the island, providing the ultimate opportunity to observe these peculiar creatures. Together with Oystercatcher Sieb, she started the expedition nest to study the descended festival visitors.

During the festival, we, as Professor Spoonbill and Oystercatcher Sieb, sought the help of the young visitors to study humans from a bird's perspective. They were transformed into oystercatchers or egrets themselves and set out on their investigation. We began at the nest, which served as our home base. From there, we took flight over the festival grounds to observe humans from a bird's-eye view. It was fascinating to see how quickly the children embraced this concept. They observed things like "candy is a type of fish, but sweet," "humans watch sounds (a concert)," and even spotted an "upside-down nest" (a Ferris wheel).

All these findings were brought back to the nest and became part of the archive that continued to grow throughout the weekend.