In her work Rinke Struik shapes the contradictions in nature and technology, light and dark, order and chaos, life and death. 

She gets her inspiration from nature during her walks in the woods and along the fields. For example fallen leaves from trees, potsherds and branches and stones.

Rinke is also inspired by worn (building) materials, due to her work in construction. All these materials are perfect because of their imperfection and transience and incompleteness. These are given a second life, a new beginning (wabi sabi).

Fascinated by the order in nature the works are an interpretation of the natural order and also a translation of the specimen cabinets in entomology. (A branch of zoology that deals with the study of insects.)

The plexiglas display cases, filled with leaves, potsherds, reed, and even Japanese paper are, as it were, three-dimensional catalogs of natural objects.

The soothing beauty that is created by the repetition in series and the presentation in a closed plexiglass display case has something contradictory. Because time is, as it were, stopped and thus the natural process of change or death is put on hold.