this version was made in 1996 as a loan to the
Drecht Banks Open Air Museum
in Zwijndrecht Holland - the 1981 version (next
page) is on loan to the Kajaani Finland - during the fifteen years
that had passed between the first version of gothic II and this one, den
Arend became more interested in the construction of a sculpture itself -
he therefore accentuated the contours by painting them red - also, he
left the steel as it came from the factory, leaving it for time to do
its job of giving it the patina of oxidized steel - this version was
also mirrored to have it open up with a view of Dordrecht across the Noord
River (when viewing the sculpture in the other direction
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