These PVC tubing and wood sculpture-turned machines are powered by the wind with polymer sails.
are also surprisingly fast for their size, and, being wind-powered, are typically completely silent.
Each year, starting in around October, Jansen begins to work on a new machine/beast. By late spring the next year, his machines are usually more or less finished and he usually releases them on a beach near his home in Scheveningen to"roam" for the Summer. “In the autumn I’m wiser, and I declare the animal extinct – it becomes a fossil. These fossils go out to the boneyard, which is the exhibitions," he added.Taking inspiration from nature and the neverending process of evolution, Jansen improves his machines with each new generation.
This stored wind energy can then be released when the wind dies off to keep moving the creature forward. Some of theSuch adaptions, though more accurately called intelligent design, enable each new Strandbeest to become more and more self-sufficient. Since he first unveiled them several decades ago, his creations have really struck a chord with the general public.
"Within the next 20 years I want the animals to be independent of me, so they take their own decisions – when to walk on the beach, what to anchor themselves against during storms or when to move away from the water,”But, as he is the first to admit, his creations are machines and not living animals. However, Jansen does seem to have a hard time“They die, and I die a little as well because I have to say goodbye to the animals,” he explained.
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