Project
WATERLICHT Rosalea Monacella
Designer: Daan Roosegaarde Date: May, 2015 Location: Netherlands ‘Waterlicht’ a public space project for the Dutch Water Board. A simulated landscape of waving lines of light evoking the aurora borealis, ‘the northern lights’. Waterlicht is the dream landscape exploring the power and poetry of water. As a virtual flood, it demonstrates how high the water levels might reach and extend into the landscape without human intervention. In this temporary installation people are enabled to experience what the Netherlands might look like without the constructed dyke system, and therefore the effect of the sea again reclaiming the land. The work explores and communicates this through a 1.6 hectare ephemeral landscape in which individuals are immersed beneath flowing lines of light simulating the water flows entering the night’s atmosphere. Waterlicht consists of light made with the latest LED technology, software and lenses. First created for the Dutch Waterboard Rijm & Ijssel, the artwork has occupied Museumplien Amsterdam and has the further ambition to create additional water light landscape that aim to create more awareness of the Dutch water scape. The innovation is within the DNA of the Dutch landscape via its dikes and creative thinking, that the suggest the Dutch themselves almost seem to have forgotten. Waterlicht is a powerful and poetic experience to remember.
Waterlicht 2015 Lines of light made with the latest LED technology, software and lenses. Daan Roosegaarde