Land art and site specific sculpture in the urban setting. Environmental
sculpture is an art form which uses the environment as its material. Concrete
art is, like any art form, human made and is therefore geometric in essence.
Public art is art which can be viewed and accessed by the public.
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
A colleague and friend, Marijke Bongers made this video
of my pollard willow project, the Iron Pollard, in her hometown, Hardinxveld/Giessendam,
Netherlands.
