With my site specific works I invite the public to become participants. One of my aims is to influence their route, to bring about physical experiences and thereby heighten people’s awareness of the here and now. Unexpected experiences that allow them to realize their own presence in space.
The Dutch tend to keep nature under full control, even in aera's where cultivated land is allowed to become 'wilderness' again. Nature is being conducted by people.
At an individual level and in a smaller scale, this also is the case in allotments: a personal creation.
The definition of Paradise is 'surrounded by walls'. The chaos and the unexpected of nature being kept outside the walls, the oases cherished inside.
Christine Jetten
