Excellent Start for the project "Wild-Wechsel" (Wildlife Variations)
This was never seen before: A 8,000 square metres size drawing shall be produced at the Oleftal dam in Hellenthal (Eifel region, Germany) within only two weeks. According to it the buzz of activities is extensive at the initial working day:
- The artist Klaus Dauven, born in Düren, draws this way since 2003 using a high-pressure cleaner and patterns. But this time he is working like "drawing according to figures" what means that he connects single pixels by the flat jet and so creates outlines.
- Two assistants of the Munich-based surveyors Geosis who transfer more than 700 pixels onto the dam by using a 60 metres long red laser beam.
- Thorsten Möwes, specialist for cleaning and hygiene technology and applications engineering trainer at Kärcher, who has already cleaned the noses of the presidents' heads at Mount Rushmore and is responsible for the technical project management at Oleftal dam.
- Three assistants of the Eifel-Rur water utility who know Germany's unique Oleftal dam like no one else.
- Two rope access specialists of GSAR mbH, a company specializing in rope access technology, who rope down the dam and fill-in the outlines at the concrete wall created by Klaus Dauven using high-pressure cleaners.
Today is the day which shows whether everything actually works as planned for more than one year. In the early afternoon almost all of the pixels have been marked at the 292 metres broad and up to 59 metres high dam with yellow modelling clay. Klaus Dauven has already created the initial animal of the motive "Wild-Wechsel" according to these pixels: a more than 15 metres high squirrel. For it he has removed organic dirt like algae, moose and lichens. The contrast between light and dark surface is even better than expected. And the sun is shining in competition to the project team.
- The artist Klaus Dauven, born in Düren, draws this way since 2003 using a high-pressure cleaner and patterns. But this time he is working like "drawing according to figures" what means that he connects single pixels by the flat jet and so creates outlines.
- Two assistants of the Munich-based surveyors Geosis who transfer more than 700 pixels onto the dam by using a 60 metres long red laser beam.
- Thorsten Möwes, specialist for cleaning and hygiene technology and applications engineering trainer at Kärcher, who has already cleaned the noses of the presidents' heads at Mount Rushmore and is responsible for the technical project management at Oleftal dam.
- Three assistants of the Eifel-Rur water utility who know Germany's unique Oleftal dam like no one else.
- Two rope access specialists of GSAR mbH, a company specializing in rope access technology, who rope down the dam and fill-in the outlines at the concrete wall created by Klaus Dauven using high-pressure cleaners.
Today is the day which shows whether everything actually works as planned for more than one year. In the early afternoon almost all of the pixels have been marked at the 292 metres broad and up to 59 metres high dam with yellow modelling clay. Klaus Dauven has already created the initial animal of the motive "Wild-Wechsel" according to these pixels: a more than 15 metres high squirrel. For it he has removed organic dirt like algae, moose and lichens. The contrast between light and dark surface is even better than expected. And the sun is shining in competition to the project team.
