With sponge castle for cleaning products, I intended to improve the quality of life of the cleaning products in Chateau Nour, the place of residency from Komplot in Brussels. For the period of one month, the cleaning products exchanged their home under the sink for a castle made of sponges. This sculpture was realized in collaboration with Belgian artist Els Dillen and a local mason. Sponge castle for cleaning products was made in a residency project called Attempts to be more kind.

Attempts to be more kind was a research in different layers of kindness. By adopting a non-human point of view and imagining how non-humans wish to be cared for, a playground of assumptions unfold. These imaginings are the starting point for a series of intentional acts in which a meaningful relationship between people and non-people is established. Acts resulting in a collection of actions, drawings, workshops, text, sculptures, performances, participatory experiments, videos, ...

Attempts to be more kind started in residency hosted by Komplot in Brussels (BE) and funded by Flemish Government. By building a sponge castle for the cleaning products, singing for plants, galloping for horse lovers and many other actions, attempts to be more kind tried to make the surroundings of Komplot a better place for non-humans. The results of this residency were shown in an exhibition. Invited for a residency hosted by Galleria 101 (LT) and funded by Lithuanian Council for Culture, attempts to be more kind took another look into the different categories of kindness. In collaboration with Els Dillen and Margarita Žigutytė, a PDF course in kindness emerged. By providing play time for baby trees, celebrating pictorial aspects, creating perfect weather conditions and many other acts, we dived deeper into the concepts of care and animism.