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It is a very fluid composite of subtly related elements, each to other Menhirs and its rigid geometrical organization, but rather of
magnetically drawn to the other yet discreetly separate. Moreover, the expressive tension that holds its parts together. Or if one wants,
instead of being covered with magical symbols, as the prehistoric the mysterious force that keeps it from falling apart and that invisibly
Menhir often is, Van de Bovenkamp’s Menhir is a magical symbol in exists in the space between the parts. The mystery deepens in Van
itself. It has fused with the mystery, which has become completely de Bovenkamp’s Menhirs, paradoxically leading to a more elated
inward. It is no longer a matter of the Menhir’s external relationship sense of the sacred, as the fantastic “Menhir Hoop”, 2002 suggests.
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