Everything is temporary, however beautiful - exhibition Iris Le Rütte at Statues by the Sea

Last spring, while looking at Catinka Kersten's newly installed sculpture on the patio of museum Beelden aan Zee, Iris Le Rütte's sculpture Daphne caught my eye. A woman who instead of a head and arms stretched branches to the sky. It is a scene from Ovid's Metamorphoses: the nymph Daphne, fleeing from the infatuated god Apollo, turns into a laurel tree. The god suffers and weaves a wreath of laurel leaf - the laurel wreath.

Later that afternoon, I drove ...