merging grids, tribute to
Cor Noltee
Dordrecht Holland
1990 an osier in the Merwelanden
Dordrecht, Holland
before, and a season
after merging grids, tribute to Cor Noltee was installed by
Lucien den Arend, the osier presented - and again presents - itself as
an organic situation
''In 1991, I initiated and participated in a symposium in this area. In an
existing osier bed, I planted four-meter long willow rods in a stringent
system of squares. The title of this work refers to the incongruity
between my contribution and the original arrangement of the randomly
planted original willows. I accentuated my grid by peeling the bark off
the tops of the newly planted branches leaving about half the length.
Below the peeled part new branches grew. Eventually the geometrically
perfect grid will merge with the random one, and the result will be almost
invisible.''
