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Zwijndrecht
The Walburg Project emerged from a deep engagement with a specific place.
Long before it was designated for development, I was drawn to this borderland
between Zwijndrecht and Hendrik Ido Ambacht. It was a site of powerful, unseen
energies: the audible buzz of high-tension wires in the fog and the precise,
celestial alignment of the sun with the landscape each solstice.
My
challenge was to create a functional sculpture that didn't just occupy this
space, but interpreted it. The design had to translate these latent
energies—both man-made and natural—into a permanent form. By integrating the
existing ditch and responding to the solar and electrical vectors of the site,
the work became a lens focusing the character of the place itself. The title,
'Walburg,' with its roots in 'earthen mound' and 'fortification,' perfectly
captured the spirit of building a new, meaningful structure upon this historical
boundary.
Walburg Project 1971|1973 earth - asphalt - meandering dike , bronze, high-tension pylon and pollard willows - 136x50x19m Zwijndrecht, the Netherlands
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