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We were sitting under a big tree unpacking the stuff at school; very cosy and the sun was shining. When looking at the logboeken (books with the pictures) we found that all people did something with the
nature/particular things of their country. (...) We had the idea to do something which is typical for Amersfoort; a forest scenery. (...)

We did three things, and made a collection of four themes:

1. The forest: we made a tipi shape of bamboo (which stands for nature and freedom) and we hanged it in the trees. We used 'strange birds' (a project of the 1st classes at school) to fill the forest scenery and to emphasize the flying building in the air

2. The sand; the students wanted to do something else with the tipi-shape; so they dragged it to the sand. Not the best idea; but it was worth trying. At that time the press (unfortunately) arrived...

3. The golden frame; Amersfoort is building/developing a new cultural centre named 'het eemcentrum'. They put a golden frame ( appr. 6 meter by 4 meter) at the place where they want to built the centre with the text on the frame: 'amersfoort becomes more beautiful'. We wanted to make a new string-skyline (of buildings), over the (flat) skyline you see when you look through the frame. The 'fun' part was it rained all day; how typicalcan it get for Holland/Amersfoort..

4. Shadows/reflection (body and building); while busy with the nets/strings the sun was shining and reflected shadows on the wall of our body and 'building'.

All four themes have a totally different atmotsphere. While busy with the nets new ideas kept coming. So it is a shame we couldn't keep the nets; now we have to make new ones ourselves to continue our creative mindsets ;)