Connections are the main theme in all Waltmans’ works up to now. Having worked as a sculpturor for many years she changed to photography. Still though, the mediating significance of the works remains relevant. She would preferably describe her series as sculptural, contextual photography.
That is to say: the photo’s can be read in many ways and refer to one another, as intimate or wordly as they can be. They are an attempt to create space, to evoke the illusion of fluidity through this static medium. Her works do not have just one identity, one reading direction, and one linear descent. Waltman searches to express an open identity throughout the multiple, the simultaneous and the changeable. Her photoos show an ongoing connection of opposites such as strenght and vulnerability, visible and invisible, core and shell, interior and exterior and the unity of contrasts. Touch remains the sense that she appeals to most strongly.
She is now photographing the Bible in a contemporain, refreshing and striking way and will eventually make a (artist)book.