THANK YOU PROJECT, AMSTERDAM 2008 AERIAL ART WORK FOR PUBLIC SPACE

This project is born thanks to my experience living in Holland. I wanted to make an art work that shows my feelings of gratefulness to that country and their people. I felt welcome and covered since the first moment. Like if I was in my own country. And I think a lot of immigrants share the same felling towards the Netherlands. I am living in Shanghai right now.

Therefore I was thinking to create a mini monument of to say “thank you”; a monument that people can walk around, very modest, that can be integrate to the daily life of the people.

 

If we separate the letters even become more accessible.

The typography or font and it size can be agreed with the neighborhood. Also, I wanted to try what happens if we can read the words from the inside. Like time surrounding us, so people can really understand the meaning of the words when we are inside. In this way, the installation can work as a meting point. So we can say is an inside and an outside. A space within a space.

But reading the news about the situation in Holland, about immigrants…I think maybe it is time to think more about Holland making a monument to the honor the immigrant and show gratefulness for them and what they have shared contributed and help in Holland society. These immigrants who go away to other places; or returning to his/her place of origin.

Consequently is possible to do an aerial monument, a monument that hypothetically we could see only from the heights, from the airplane...is made with small lights, or we can find the fluorescent lights used in airports and highways.