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title> A MONUMENT FOR ALL THOSE WHO PASS BY
author>Eveline van den Berg

A monument is a solid object to commemorate a person or an important event. They are frequently designed as artistic objects to improve the appearance of a city or location. The purpose of monuments is very often to create awe. Monumental refers to something of extraordinary power and size.

Crossroads or traffic islands are made for letting the traffic flow throw a city, which means no congestion. Mobilizing the people throw the city from place to place. A network. Connection. From one street or location to the other.

I want to reclaim the non-used spaces in the traffic islands (I call them fleeing hills), in the middle of the night when these frequented places become useless and desolate. I photograph myself with a remote release in the centre of my claimed space. I become an object, a monument. It will be a still life of isolation at a traffic point that functions during the day as a traffic flower. It could also be an ode to the non-used space that people drive by, because they can drive by. It’s liberation.

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