Joseph Beuys argued
that the light in Holland lost its unique brightness as a result
of land reclamation in the Zuyder Zee in the 1950s. The makers
of Dutch Light established a baseline on the dike linking the
villages of Marken and Monnickendam, from which to observe
the light at different times of the day and in different seasons.
For a year we kept returning to the same spot on what is now
a lake, the IJsselmeer, to record the landscape in different
types of light.
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