2009
De Haan, Belgium
Windsocks and flagpoles

Meaning “The wind blows where it pleases”, Buren used 100 flagpoles with 100 windsocks on the beach of De Haan, Belgium to create the illusion of a forest. Continuing his site-specific works to create a context that helps define the work, this installation like others was meant to be interacted with. One would play around with walking about these poles to see the relationship between an object and its context to create multiple viewpoints and perspectives. In this installation, the work itself which took charge of the winds movement and imposed it on the viewer as the windsocks raised, lowered, and shifted left to right.