As a young boy growing up in Germany, each Christmas Norman and his family watched a movie called "The Trap" filmed in western Canada in 1966. Norman's concept of surviving the Canadian landscape was formed by this childhood event.
"The first time Yvette told me about This Neck of The Woods, I was immediately thinking of The Trap a place in the wilderness, too far away from the 'normal' civilization. Everything can happen, you have to improvize and there's a long way to warmth and cosyness."
(click image to see the snow fall in This Neck of the Woods)
Norman's residency and project were made possible with the generous support of het Fonds voor beeldende kunsten, vormgeving en bouwkunst (the Netherlands).
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Norman asked to be the very last resident of This Neck of The Woods. Norman spent two days making cardboard traps (for beavers, bears and wolves) and an axe to prepare the site before it reverted to Dutch soil and an ordinary Rotterdam garden house. He hung these traps in and around TNOTW and left the axe in the corner of the cabin. Norman also played the film The Trap for a select audience and left it in the archive box under the bed.
