I was commisioned by the city of Roeselare in Belgium to create an artwork inspired by Albrecht Rodenbach, a local poet, rebel and folk hero. With his poetry and back-to-your roots approach Rodenbach inspired a student uprising advocating revival of Flemish literature, thus becoming one of the symbols of Flemish movement.
My concept for this artwork was twofold: on one hand, on an idea transmission: a singular idea being sparked into existence from ether, and then having so much charge that it spreads, grows, multiplies and develops into a wave of many, until an aggregate becomes a movement, a revolution, and finally a change. We are united and divided by what we believe the world to be.
On another hand, it also speaks of us humans coming from the same source as singular beings, but then learning through trials of life that the ultimate craving we all share is that primal sense of unity and belonging. We can only truly live-love-laugh in co-exhistence and collaboration with others, as well as to create and build meaningful things we have to unite and be in service to the humankind and the planet.