Focused on the interrelationship between religion, superstition and science in relation to place, culture and time
Terstappen is not fixed on a particular medium but generally works with photography and sculpture.
Over many years her artistic work has focused on the interrelationship between religion, superstition and science in relation to place, culture and time. The values associated with nature, particularly of indigenous cultures, have made her reflect on and explore the dependency between the human race and the natural world, creating bodies of work that explore environmental changes, inevitably leading to destruction.
While her photographs are a direct response to her experience of being out bush, her sculptural works are more a translation of that experience into form. She navigates between natural and cultural forms that interest her. These can be perceived as both, isolations and enlargements of particular appearances. Set between the visible and the imaginary, they create certain tensions between organisms and abstract structures, remaining open to an infinite net of interpretations.