Field Harrings
These “harrings” (pegs) were conceived during my internship with Frank Bruggeman for Stichting de Hangar in Arnhem. Their shape follows the bird’s-eye morphology of two distinct cropping types present on the site: the strip and the circular hügelbed.
The Hangar estate is a historic site originally built to camouflage a German bomber inside a fake farm. Frank’s project aimed to bridge this wartime memory with the contemporary interest in eco-bio farming. My first impression of the place was the juxtopposition between the remnants of WWII with an “utopian” collective effort toward a community garden. The aluminum Nameboards, Pins, Harrings, Shards or Swords? Used to poke, at the uncomfortable memory underneath the thin layer of the happy soil on the top.
Frank Bruggeman, SHIFT, Strip cropping.
Frank Bruggeman, IMPACT series, hügelbed.
