PATTERNS AND FRAGMENTS | Fragmenten en Patronen

Before constructing a cycle path along the N225 provincial road, archaeological research was conducted to find traces of the German invasion in May 1940.
The attack and defence lines of the German troops and the Dutch army ran perpendicular to the current N225, creating a kind of timeline.

The landscape on the Grebbeberg still largely resembles that of May 1940: the road, the avenue trees, the rye fields, the forest edges.
Some trees literally date from that period and still bear visible or invisible scars in their bark.
The shrapnel fragments have often penetrated deep into the tree trunks and have become overgrown and encapsulated over the years, as living metaphors for what time does to our wounds.

Based on fragments and patterns in the landscape, the development of the battle can be rewritten, visualised and brought back to life.