my name is Ian Frasier and I've written a piece about Theo Johnson who is a Dutch artist who makes creatures that walk kinetic sculptures which he calls St Beast another 10 steps one two three St beast in Dutch means Beach animal Tao has worked in a number of different forms but in 1990 he began making sculptures out of PVC pipe plastic pipe sculptures whose purpose was to walk on the beach and throw sand up onto the Dutch Dunes in order to help preserve them from the rising sea [Music] this is a project that he's worked on exclusively since then for 21 [Music] years he is a Dutch artist that's a very strong tradition that a visual artist has to work with and against sometimes they always photographed on the beach and the photographs always use the clouds in the sky in the North Sea and so he's in the tradition I think of Dutch landscape in a in a kind of complicated modern way he manages to make things that look so close to being alive that you almost can't believe that they aren't it's just like witchcraft [Music]