The Letters of Utrecht

(Dick Sijtsma) 

Since 2012, a team of poets has been creating a never-ending poem, which is embedded into the cobblestones lining Oudegrach street in Utrecht, Netherlands.  De Letters van Utrecht,  is a constantly evolving “social sculpture” that continues to expand every Saturday afternoon when one of 22 stone carvers from a local guild chisels a single letter into the stone. The project will continue as long as the city and community members sponsor it.

“You have to begin somewhere to give the past its place, the present matters ever less. The further you are, the better. Continue now,
leave your footprints. Forget the flash, in which you may exist, the world is your map. If there was a time when you where another: it went by.
You are the other already. You are, as you know, the center of this story. This is eternity. It lasts. It has the time. Become one with your story and revel. Tell. [...]

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