The overgrown rock
The dynamics of a landscape in the middle of a roundabout:
A) Planting larch trees, which, to me, are characterized by the way they appear so differently across the seasons.
B) By revealing the history (of the old-fashioned crossroads).
C) And by creating dynamism through a sculpture that would be buried under sand after six months, thus living on primarily in memory. And perhaps becoming partially visible again through erosion.
Between 1997 and 2008, the artist created studies and proposals for interventions in the Dutch landscape—involving specific plantings, a specific artwork, or a building. In nine out of ten cases, his proposals were too radical, too unusual, too simple, too difficult, or, as in this case, they were crushed by the bureaucratic machinery of the water board (five years after submitting his design, it turned out that the roundabout had to be built on a primary flood barrier).
