The sculptures of the public art work Looking for You are placed on either side of the bridge over the canal in the small city Ter Apel. This canal was once one of the busiest shipping routes in the Netherlands, but even nowadays many yachts still visit the village. On the quay stand two life-size human sculptures on three-meter-high wooden bollards. The realistically sculpted man and woman are looking through binoculars as if they just have just discovered each other in the field of view and now cannot look away.
Although the sculptures have a contemporary feel, they form an almost classic picture of people on the quayside looking over the water. It is an image full of expectations: are they looking forward to the arrival of their loved one? Here, however, the two human figures don’t stare off in the distance but toward each other. Sometimes things you thought were far away, appear to be so close …
“Seen from a distance everything becomes poetry.”