herman de vries:
one stream

An as-yet indeterminate number of stone tablets will be mounted along the banks of the Aa. The text for the first tablet comes from the Chandogy Upanishad, and has been translated by various interpreters. It says:

 "These rivers, my dear, flow the eastern toward the east, the western toward the west. They go just from sea to sea. They become the sea itself. Just as these rivers while they do not know 'I am this one,' 'I am that one.'"

- translation: Radhakrishnan

"My son! Rivers flowing east and west, rise from the sea. Return to the sea, become the sea itself, forget their identities."

- translation: Shree Purohit Swami

"Diese Ströme, o teurer, fleißen im Osten gegen Morgen und im Westen gegen Abend; von Ozean zu Ozean strömen sie (sich vereinigend), sie werden lauter Ozean. Gleichwie diese daselbst nicht wissen, daß sie dieser oder jener Fluß sind."

- translation: Paul Deussen

"Deze rivieren, mijn kind, stromen - de oostelijke naar het oosten, de westelijke naar het westen. Zij gaan van oceaan tot oceaan. Zij worden de oceaan zelf."

- translation: J.A. Blok

The rest of the tablets will have names of rivers written upon them. The 108 river names chosen by the artist for the stones are:

"Aa, Weilersbach, Rhein, Main, Siagne, Rio Cedro, Meander, Wutach, Unstruth, Bille, Havel, Spree, Bug, Ijzer, Semois, Amstel, Dochart, Black Adder, Mersey, Berezina, Pripyat, Dnjepr, Moskva, Aku-dar'ya, Yenissey, Seine, Loire, Rhône, Amur, Ussuri, Tigris, Euphrates, Shatt Al Arab, Jordan, Indus, Sarasvati, Narbada, Ganga, Brahmaputra, Yamuna, Godavari, Kali Gandaki, Bagmati, Tsang Po, Mekong, Itrawaddy, Yangtse, Irkut, Huang Ho, Digul, Flinders, Warry Warry, Rio Uruquai, Rio Parana, Ucayali, Rio Grande, Putomayo, Rio Napo, Amazonas, Vaup_s, Orinoco, Tocantinzinha, Rio Jucururu, Marowijne, Yukon, Colorado, Sacramento, Bighorn, Missouri, Bayou Macon, Ohio, Potomac, Mississippi, Toad River, Swakop, Vaal, Limpopo, Zambezi, Gombe, Nile, Congo, Zaire, Oubangui, Sénégal, Niger, Bahr El Azrag, Draa, Tiber, Drina, Douro, Ebro, Guadalquivir, Fluvia, Dordogne, Warche, Roubion, Doubs, Var, Durance, Somme, Marne, Moder, Aare, Emme, Lech, Inn, Suss, Rur, Mense."

The installation will not be realized.