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Most fountains look a bit forlorn when they aren’t spraying water. With this fountain, there’s always something to see – even when the water’s turned off.

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And that was precisely the intention when artist Bas Lugthart was commissioned to create his design. In his design, Lugthart uses not only the blue tube as a material, but also water and even the wind and gravity. Without water, the viewer sees the outline of a face. As soon as the fountain sprays, the figure becomes complete: the arc formed by the water creates a slightly different hairstyle with every gust of wind.

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