Since 1968, my work has centered on land art, environmental projects, and site-specific sculptures—as well as freestanding sculpture in urban and natural settings. My practice explores the geometric and mathematical principles underlying constructive sculpture, always responding to the specific character of each location.
My sculpture and land art are grounded in constructive principles. Among my key public commissions are the twenty-meter stainless steel Opening the Arctic Circle (Kemijärvi, Finland, 1992)—one of the largest public artworks north of the Polar Circle—the monumental red steel Veera in Vaasa, and the Suvanto Puisto park design for Kajaani (now in the collection of the Kajaani Taide Museo / Kajaani Art Museum). In the south-west of Holland, I designed and built a highway bridge as a sculptural intervention in the public domain.
From 1982 to 1983, as spokesman for the Dutch Sculptors' Association, I co-organized the East West Forum symposium in Dordrecht, bringing together six Japanese and six Dutch sculptors in a landmark artistic exchange.
To document my urban sculptures and land art projects, I have compiled city pages listing realized and proposed site-specific public sculptures in more than fifty-five locations. Notable proposals include a 2012 design for Changchun Sculpture Park in China, and in 2012, a sculptural intervention for a traffic circle in Kangasniemi, Finland (also see rotonde.org); it was finally realized in 2018. I designed and built my former studio in Zwijndrecht, the Netherlands, and now live and work at Penttilä in Kangasniemi, Finland.
In the spring of 2006 I installed my large sculptures and constructions around our house and my studios in Finland - this permanent exhibition, called POAM sculpture park (Penttilä Open Air Museum) is located in the forests and hills around Penttilä Estate.
