A few years later, the British artist Gormley was approached by the municipality to create the sixth landscape artwork in the province of Flevoland.

One of his best-known works is Angel of the North, a 20 m (66 ft) steel figure with wings, which was unveiled in Gateshead in 1998.

The vastness of the surroundings makes it difficult to estimate the scale of the 26 m (85 ft) high artwork from a distance.

[2] Writing about the sculpture, Atlas Obscura said, "Exposure most definitely resembles a giant figure squatting to poop.

The artist predicts that because of Global warming and rising sea levels, the dam will have to be raised at some point, burying the work more and more.