Artistic interventions in public spaces, often referred to as "art in architecture," give me as an artist the opportunity to design in a truly expansive way.
The art comes to the viewers, rather than them coming to the art. The people, for example, might not have planned to visit a museum, but instead find themselves confronted with visual art in public spaces, often realized through public funding.
For this reason, it seems important to me that these interventions serve the people.
We should aim to create places of rest, strength, and contemplation. Places that foster exchange, community, and well-being. Places for being. With artistic intervention, something can be achieved that architecture alone often struggles to do: addressing users on an inner, emotional level; transcending functional thinking; initiating a dialogue with the viewers in their emotional world; moving away from viewing people as mere mechanical elements in a world of functional processes.
