In these short sketches Tonny describes the surroundings of her childhood. Her family lived in Randwijck, a quiet new neighbourhood in Nieuwer-Amstel, a stone’s throw from the Amsterdam Forest (het Amsterdamse Bos) and less than an hour’s bicycle ride from the centre of Amsterdam. She grew up in an artistic family in which children learned drawing by following their father’s example.

The subject of Tonny’s DVD is -designing as an answer to nature-. In this first chapter she not only goes back to her childhood memories, but also deals with the changes the Dutch landscape has undergone over the past thousand years. The originally uncultivated land of peat bogs and sand dunes has become a residential area of crowded cities and farming villages on polders and levelled sand plains.