Material: chalk

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Here we see a geometrical pattern, created for the ceiling of the underground station Gneisenaustraße in Berlin. The work is like a sky full of samaras, those seeds from a maple tree that twirl down like little helicopters. Doesn’t that make you smile? It’s just like a forest! When I created it, I got in touch with my inner child.

2874949 SAMARAS (FOR YOU) was almost removed because some people saw a link with swastikas. In preparation of a debate evening I wrote an essay: Why a Child’s Fantasy Can Never Be ‘Entartete Kunst’: Notes on an Expected Apology from the German People. Unfortunately one day before the debate my agent called and said I had to come back to the Netherlands immediately for urgent business.