Urban wild life

works in a pubric space

August - September, 2009

Cross Over

Cultual park Westergasfabriek

Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Baby Gasholder

Check-in counter

Rabbit fire-extiguisher

Lorry

After years to cleanup heavily polluted soil, a former industrial site 'Westergasfabriek' has been reused as 'Culture park Westergasfabriek'. Park keepers have made continuous efforts to look after nature in the park. Nature has multiplied it's life force to produce an ideal wildness in the urban city. General idea of my art works in the park Correlating with a development of the city, animals in the park have survived and grown their urban activities. They have become sophisticated enough to cooperate and work well together with human. I make artworks with an aim to give another dimension to the park and cross over the border between human activities and activities of nature.

Baby Gasholder

There are many families in the park. A small boy is kicking a ball to his father. A woman is talking with her mother on a wheelchair. Baby ducks are chasing its mother's back. Insects, plants even soils are same. The park is the place to provide moments to transmit their activities from generation to generation. Monumental building 'Gasholder' might be in a same principle. I made a baby of Gasholder in a pond, one of former gasholder. Baby ducks have fun in Baby Gasholder as much as people have enjoyments in Mama Gasholder.