The Westplein Monument

Created over a 6 week period in collaboration with Burnley artist Andy Baker in 2005, the Westplien statue was created entirely from pieces of the now demolished Westplien houses in central Utrecht.

The statue stands in the woodlands of Mobillion about 3 miles from the city centre alongside a new moterway development.

The statue stands as a monument to the beauty of urban decay.

Its location at the site of the new moterway makes its presence a testament to the aesthetics of art within the expanse of the disappearing natural landscape.

My interpretation of this is that it is not the object itself that defines it as a work of art but the reaction, the subjective emotional response to the object that sets it apart from the rest of its surroundings.