Giny Vos
Projects
Poetry garden
Poetry garden, 1998

Zwembad De Hoorn Alphen aan den Rijn

High waves of grass are spread out around a swimming pool. In the grass are boulders with digital displays. On the displays texts appear and disappear. A poetic phrase, a yearning or a graffiti-ish tag flash by as if from nowhere, like the beam from a lighthouse: ‘ahoy – ahoy’, ‘the further we looked, the larger it seemed’. And just like in the open sea, the images disappear as abruptly as they appeared. Because of their size and measurements, the waves encourage people to settle down in them.

Dim. 11 x 19 x 0,85 m
Soil, grass, granite, LED displays

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Location: De Hoorn swimming pool, Alphen aan den Rijn
Client: City of Alphen aan den Rijn
Production: Artos atelier, Hoek Voorburg hoveniers, Paul Jansen Klomp, Rob Jongbloed