Grass Art

No, I am not writing about Günter Grass, a Nobel Prize winner in literature and known as a skilled sculptor and fine graphic artist too.

I would like to present a grass work of art made by Ralf Witthaus, an artist from Cologne, on the Stühlinger Church Square, in mowing stripes into the lawn. My first reaction was that he had cut too deep, but his answer was that Nature is taking my work of art back. Art that does exist only for two or three weeks must communicate well. 

People living around the Stühlinger Church - situated just across the train station and often mistaken by passing travelers as Freiburg’s Minster Church - look at this piece of art differently in branding a panel: This is no art, this is a noise nuisance! Indeed, Ralf had used a rather noisy lawnmower.

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