On returning to the Netherlands, the emerging world of personal computers and digital image-making opened a new creative territory. ​Years of experimentation with Photoshop gradually developed into a distinctive visual language. Much later, broken glass returned deliberately as the starting material for his work as it was the first thing Elmer saw after the car crash. From the violent reality of the broken glass, new and phantastic worlds are born. From physical to digital, back to physical, the work creates ongoing cycles of transformation, in which chance becomes equally important than precise determination. Today his practice moves between photography, digital transformation and physical construction, combining layered Forex, embedded objects, epoxy resin and, in some works, light, text, music and moving image.