The Milk Factory

During his time in Esbeek, Andreas Schotel observed mechanization having an ever-greater impact on the landscape. The Milk Factory depicts the contrast between nature and emerging industry, with a strong connection to that era and to the future: the cow in the landscape transformed into a milk factory. Artist Hannes Verhoeven, together with 50 volunteers, spent six months working on the eight-meter-tall artwork, which consists of 13,000 oak slats and 50,000 screws. In June 2018, at the start of his nationwide working visits to successful citizen initiatives, King Willem-Alexander walked right into the head of “De Esbeekse Koe,” which was still under construction at the time.

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