Hardinxveld/Giessendam

The Dutch village of Hardinxveld/Giessendam consists of polder roads with long narrow pastures. Along the road the view from the farmhouses gives a magnificent perspective. Little canals form the perimeters for the elongated stretches of land.

Lucien den Arend proposed to do a pollard willow project in this setting. Piet Burger, a friend who lived in one of the farmhouses, offered to have the rear of his property transformed into a circular island.

1992 - the iron pollard | de ijzeren knot, island and osier environment, Hardinxveld/Giessendam NL

Watch a video "walk around the land art project" - video by Marijke Bongers

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