Theo Jansen

is an artist, living and working in the Netherlands. He studied physics at the Technical University of Delft. As an artist he started out painting. Then he started a project with a big flying saucer, which could really fly. It flew over the town of Delft in 1980 and caused a great deal of commotion. For about ten years he has occupied himself making a new nature. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic matierial of this new nature. He makes skeletons which are able to walk on the wind. Eventualy he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.