WASTELAND WARLAND WETLAND

The Brabantse Delta Water Board combines its role as water manager with a broad focus on nature and culture. Between 2004 and 2008, for example, nature-friendly banks and spawning grounds were created along the Mark and Dintel rivers.
Against the backdrop of this work, this landscape artwork was created along the western bank of the Mark between Breda and Terheyden.

WASTELAND WARLAND WETLAND connects the past, present and future of this area.
•The artwork connects nature development on the “ground level” with the former riverbed below.
•It juxtaposes 17th and 18th century archaeology with modern water management.
•It links past floods and inundations to water storage today and tomorrow.
•It links ecology and hydrology to landscape art.

The plot “folds” under the pressure of many conflicting interests in this area, such as agriculture versus estate, nature versus industry, urbanisation versus open landscape, today’s developments on the traces of yesterday; tension between the artificial and the natural, between management and “free rein”, between order and chaos, between expediency and futility, between “dream and deed”…