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The Guardian bezoekt Koen Vanmechelens monument voor de gevallen soldaten in de Eerste Wereldoorlog in Ieper. Het bestaat uit 600.000 apart gemaakte kleisculpturen.

‘Weeds are growing in a Flanders field. The straggly wild plants are sprouting through the newest first world war memorial in Belgium, one that offers a different way of remembering the conflict.

Entitled Coming World, Remember Me, the work consists of 600,000 individual clay sculptures, one for each person – soldier and civilian – killed on Belgian soil during world war one. At the centre of the installation is a giant egg, to symbolise a new world.

Allowing the weeds to grow is not a mark of irreverence, but a symbol of nature reclaiming the battlefield, according to Koen Vanmechelen, the Belgian conceptual artist behind the work….’

Meer in The Guardian