The Vision of Lely

Finished this mural “The Vision of Lely” for @writersblockmurals in collaboration with our brothers @karskiandbeyond in Lelystad city centre. A special one for us since we decided to merge our styles and divert from our usual black and white color pallet for once. The work displays the vision Lely had for the “Flevopolder”. It shows elements of the method used to change water in to land and the battle that was waged on this spot to control the sea. Before 1957 the whole of Lelystad and the area around it known as the Flevopolder was water and called Zuiderzee (south sea). To start the process of creating land, in short, de Zuiderzee was sealed with a dam and parts of land where drained of water to create new mass. This design was called the Zuiderzeewerken and Cornelis Lely (man in the portrait) was the architect this genius engineering. We see floating plains representing the new fields that where produced and shapes rising up inspired by arial photos of the emerging of national park Nieuw Land (new land). You can see seeds floating used to fertilise the land and a bever who made the newly acquired land its home. This colourful dreamlike mural of almost 600m2 shows you Lely’s dream of turning liquid into soil. The whole wall has an AR layer which is developed by @moyosamedia en @wildfruit.nl and can be seen if you are on location and open streetart.ar then point your camera at the wall. We want to thank @writersblockmurals for hosting and curating. Happy we finally got to work together. Images by @beyond.graffiti Image 8 and 9 by @pluimfotografie

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