First week, Analyzing the Feeling and Space of Childhood

The first week we had to come up with a space from your youth.
It had to be a space that was really special to you, or still is.
The space needed to make a inpact on you, and you needed to find images of this place/space.

I Came up with the Brokopondo River in Surinam.
When I was young, I went there for the first time.
Brokopondo is a river / water that used to be forest and jungle.
People lived there, but were moved from there because the whole place had a new goal.
The Brokopondo jungle was filled with water and is now called "Stuwmeer' , this was to get energy from the falling water.
The energy was used by a very big company and factory calles Rosebell. This is a Canadian Company that is winning Bauxiet ( for Aluminium) and Gold. Surinam is on the 17th place of most wealthy countries in the world, with his very worthfullb consumable ground raw stocking.
The rest of the energy goes to the city for electricity.

The whole forest was under water and all the animals and people had to leave.
Most of the trees are still in the water but they are all dead.
The trees and wood dont taint because there is no oxigen in the water. So that made all the trees still standing up.
This is from the land a remark of the waters.

When you are in this Big Lake and far from the land, you cant see the land because of all the trees.
This makes the open space a very closed space.

I wanted to make this image and space in my sculpture.