STEEL
Bantpolder is a nature reserve and lies near the ferry crossing to Schiermonnikoog. The bitumen dike appears on the left seen from the road when northward bound.
In 2004 my first thought was swiftly scribbled down; ‘the memory of a storm become stillness, now embedded in an upturned sculpted boat’. This thought is to be built in the Summer of 2009. It will be placed within a Friesian dike that once marked the meeting between land and
sea.
Encrusted in bitumen the dike was as much road as defence again the sea. Now it is the haunt of wintering Barnacle geese and Summer waders.
When I first walked the dike I took the droppings from goose and sheep and sketched with it the gently undulating lines of the polder. When built the upturned steel-hulled boats will be smeared with goose excrement so that lichens and moss will grow, slowly making the work
become one with the dike and the shifts in the ground.