Settlement

Installation of pvc-tube, hundreds of plastic bags filled with clear filtered groundwater, iron, tierips
Size: 9 igloos of different size. The biggest one: 2.50m high , diameter 4.00m.
The total dimension is 20m/20m

Settlement is inspired by the history of the place and the relation with environmental issues in present times.
I built the installation in the ancient landscape of Drenthe (Hijkerveld), province of the Netherlands . The first nomads built their settlement here after the last ice age and it has been inhabited since. Nowadays it is a nature reserve.
Settlement consists of 9 identical "melted" igloos of different size.
The igloos are constructed with plastics: pvc-tubes with hundreds of plastic bags filled with clear, filtered groundwater, hanging from the pvc-tubes. I figure that this water has been melted once after the ice age and eventually has been found in the circular course of water and now I use it again to build settlement. The bags with water entered into an interaction with the light in landscape.
In each of the hundreds of plastic bags you can see the landscape upside down.
The landscape was hundreds of times present in the installation.
The igloos moved in the wind like bellydancers, just like the bushes and the tops of the trees.
Depending of the position of the viewer, you could see a little rainbow in the water of every plastic bag caused by the working of prism and also in the dew in the grass.