In 1998 I made a drawing of a young woman on a beach in a particular pose who seems to be in a duel between good and evil forces. At the bottom left of the drawing is a monk or shaman who has thrown a number of shapes on the sand in front of him to read the future and talks to the woman in response to what the shapes are telling him. At least that was the thought I always had when looking at this drawing.

I thought it would be interesting to reconstruct the visual elements of the puzzle-like shapes. So I recreated them from a scrap piece of trespa using a jigsaw.

Since the shapes were not particularly complicated or visually exciting, I was mainly concerned with seeing how I could add them to an existing (coastal) landscape as striking visual elements in a similar composition as shown in the drawing.

The estuary of the Wadden Sea with its ebb and flow movement gave me exactly the environment I was looking for, because the nature present there is in a constant conflict between land and water.