Yesterday I showed my children quickly around a place called Velp. It's in the Netherlands. Velp is where my grandpa lived and partly worked. He bought houses to renovate, owned shops and restaurants.
"Was it there when you lived here", my children liked to know. Some parts were others not but that is not the photo I will share here.
My eye catches a statue. A statue that wasn't there as I lived here, I visited my grandparents and it deserves attention. I love sculptures, my hard bleeds I never became on.
I crossed the road (I stood at the opposite of it) to photograph "the horse with the knight".
A smartphone is not the greatest camera to take pictures over long distances.
I wanted to see the happy horse but it turned out not to be a horse at all.
The horse with the man on his back, the long tail and the strange sword...
The car, what about the car? What am I looking at?
A man!
I look at a man carrying something and there are more than three of them. Men "working like horses" (Dutch expression).
These men turn out to be road workers. Those people who work on the road.
This sculpture is placed in front of the "Overtuin" which is if you ask me an apartment complex of elderly people.
The statue is made by Hans Vos and officially presented in 1998 as the "Overtuin" was opened.
If you wonder about the strange sword... It stands for the road "Hoofdstraat" and it's curved.
I did nothing special to make this photo. It rained outside by periods and the first photo was made while I faced the sun.
Camera used: Samsung mobile phone A10
PhotoGrid: (free app) made the photos smaller and easier for me to upload. I can write my name + type of phone on it. My phone doesn't have the option to do this automatically.
What does that statue symbolize?