The temporary installation Gedicht voor 1000 handen was commissioned by the Province of Drenthe and the Reest en Wieden Water Board and was part of the Oranjekanaal Art Event.
The work is situated in the Drenthe landscape and refers to the history of labor and land reclamation in this area. The layered land and the wet soil form the physical and substantive context of the poem. A thousand hands that dug and worked symbolize the many anonymous people who lived and worked here, and those who lost out in the process.
In the poem, references to the past resonate like echoes in the landscape. Images of stagnant water and mirages mark the boundary between memory and imagination. The installation in the lock invites attention and reflection, functioning as a subdued memorial—light in tone, without aiming for monumentality.
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