A statue of a frail old man on crutches carrying a child on his back across turbulent waters, carved from stone like classical sculptures of Saints. Installed on a groyne the sculpture overlooks the Dieren-Olburgen ferry, one of the oldest IJssel crossings which was first mentioned in an act from 1269, like a contemporary Saint Christopher, guarding over the river and its travelers. According to the story Saint Christopher could only barely manage to bring the child of Christ across a ferocious river, despite his enormous strength, because it carried the weight of the world on its shoulders. This statue does not depict a strong giant, but a fragile elderly person, which poses the ambiguous question about the contemporary value of wisdom and experience through ageing and the necessity of physical travel in an increasingly digitized age, where knowledge seems to unfold under the thumbs of the next generation, like Michel Serres poses. Wandererzähler also refers to the increasing threat of floods as an effect of the changing climate, caused by the rising sea level and the ever more frequent and more severe extreme weather conditions. The globally changing weather forces dangerous migration across continents and rough seas.
Wandererzähler