Commission / municipality of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 2018, memorial monument for the Fokker bombing in Amsterdam North, 1943. 
Cast-iron lids colored with pigmented epoxy. / ø 80 cm. / Technical supervision and execution Kamp & van Gulik / Gieterij Borcherts / Frezerij Friedhof
This serial artwork consisting of 11 different manhole covers spread across 11 different locations to emphasise the fragmented, random nature of the bombings. There is something mysterious about a manhole cover; as if there is still a world underground. A world carefully sealed off, a hatch to the unknown, but also to a world with history. During the war, people took refuge underground in shelters, the resistance worked ‘underground’. The bombing struck craters in the city, which were then carefully covered up again by the reconstruction. I graphically depicted the various stories on the lids; the names of the 204 victims are listed in the outer edge of the lids. The cast-iron lids are coloured with pigmented epoxy, something we are not familiar with in Europe but which I further developed and implemented following the Japanese example.