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Despite his fear of heights, De Boer hung below the scaffolding in cables for days on end, across the 40-metre-high facade of the Lamérisflat. Painting the mural was also a challenge in a technical sense: the piece, covering about 500 square meters, is composed of horizontal paintbrush strokes. De Boer created special brushes for the job: ‘the have the exact breadth of several bricks, so that we could add a horizontal stroke in one draw. Like some kind of human printer, we worked from top to bottom. Quite exciting, actually.’ While realising the work, the HKU artist was assisted by artist collective De Strakke Hand (‘The Steady Hand’).
Always exploring
With his artwork, De Boer reacts to the strict design of the city’s public spaces. ‘In Utrecht and our broader society, much is approached in a linear way. While humans, the earth and all her processes are not, and more organic in nature. This work doesn’t display its true self, or what you ‘must’ think of it. Instead, it calls upon the imagination of those who pass by it. I hope that the residents, even after looking at it for years, keep discovering something new in this image.’
