Frau Holle (Meadow) operates as a central image within Sassen's extensive collaboration with artist Emmeline de Mooij. Taking its title from the central European pagan folkloric figure, the broader project is a rigorous meditation on female transformation, aging, and the reclamation of visibility. By challenging traditional ideas of palatable beauty and embracing what the artists describe as the "monstrous," Sassen subverts the conventional fashion and portraiture gaze.

Aesthetically, the image relies on Sassen’s signature disruption of the physical form and her vivid, high-contrast palette. The artist uses a sheer black fabric draped entirely over the upper half of the bent-over figure. By obscuring the head and torso and allowing the fabric to trail onto the grass, the human body is transformed into an abstract, unrecognizable shape. This manipulation of the fabric, paired with the performative pose, acts as a sculptural intervention within the natural landscape.The composition isolates these surreal interventions against the natural setting, utilizing deep, graphic shadows and obscured faces to strip away individual identity.

This approach forces the viewer to engage with the subject as an abstract, formal shape rather than a traditional portrait, translating the ephemeral act of play into a highly structured visual puzzle.