Weed artwork which took three years to grow is accidentally cleared in 15 minutes
The steps should have been covered with plants. Photo: RTV Utrecht video still
The work, which consisted of a flight of steps partially covered by a green carpet of plants, was blasted with a weed burner and ruined in just 15 minutes
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The Disappearing Steps, situated behind Utrecht’s Centraal Museum, is normally in the hands of Vergroening Singels030, a group of volunteers who want to make the city greener.
‘I think the council hired a temporary worker who did not know these steps were an ecological project and that the council does not do the maintenance. I heard he was working in the area with a weed burner and that he thought he might as well do the steps as well. It was all gone in no time,’ volunteer Harmke van Dam told the AD.