Last April, artist Henk Hofstra used 4000 liters of blue paint, more than 3,000 feet of roadway, and a few mutilated cars to create this breathtaking civic artwork aptly titled “The Blue Road Installation.”
Painted on a stretch of street in the Dutch town of Drachten, the Blue Road was created to form a kind of urban river and recreate the path of a waterway that used to be where the road currently runs. The message “Water is Life” is written across the blue strip, in 25-foot lettering.
Created on a scale that Hofstra hoped would be visible by satellite, the urban memorial to nature even includes oddities like a parked car sinking into its banks. Check out more pictures of the Blue Road in the gallery below.

River City
( Road With Blue Paint )