Where do the stones come from? “I demolished three hunebeds for it,” Arie jokes against a few curious walkers from Amsterdam. “You don’t miss them!” Without joking, Arie then tells him that he wants to honor history. “Everything that has lived here has left its spurs. The burial mounds, the animals that lie here. This is the place where it has to happen. Here you can put something that OER-Drents is. Not only in shape, but also in terms of material.”
With a roll size in his hand, the artist points to the next boulder. “This one is beautiful. It is allowed here.” The excavator then picks it up, puts it on three smaller boulders and hits the grab on it. “Because of that technique, it must become a safe artwork. I hope that children will climb over this.”
It is a living artwork, so it is never finished. “I hope to be able to be here again in ten years, if that is reserved for me. At that time I will just continue to collect boulders.” For people who want to look, Arie has a suggestion: “Take a rug immediately and meditate in the middle of the circle. You sit in a unique place, let that come in.”