From her Los Angeles studio, Belgian sculptural artist Katrien van der schueren transforms raw, tactile materials into monumental poetic forms – working across sculpture, lighting, and large-scale murals. Driven by emotion, fixation and devotion to the process, her thoughts and inspirations unfold on film for the short documentary The Artist Mind, captured on Super 8 by friend and filmmaker Marcia Prentice.

Allowing the profile to evolve through the deeper meaning that revealed itself over the shoot, Prentice leans into the inner workings of van der schueren’s subconscious, and the material experimentation that enables each work to emerge organically. Bridging refined techniques with a state of surrender that embraces the unknown, van der schueren leads The Artist Mind through an intuitive approach, guided by touch – coaxing wood, stone, plaster, metal, resin, and composite media into surprising transformations of form and texture.