come with me Wallace to a windswept
beach in Holland because this is home to
an incredible creature that only needs a
slight breeze to spring into life my
name is Jo Johnson we're here in
Edinburgh in Holland where I work every
day and here I try to make new forms of
life which keeps me busy 24 hours a day
and I want to put those out on the
beaches where they can live in the
future and they don't have to eat
because they gather energy from the
width
Theo's been making his creatures for
over 20 years and he's evolving such
clever designs that one day he hopes
they'll be able to leave home and live
permanently in the Dutch sand dunes
incredibly his animal-like creatures are
only made from PVC getting them to walk
smoothly was the first step but his
animals still needed their creator to
get them going he had to pool his first
creatures up into the wind before they
could scuttle back up the beach but Theo
didn't want to always have to pull his
offspring of the beach so the next
generation got a propeller and then to
give them more running power he bottled
nature's best wind design ever and gave
them wings through hours of
experimenting and trial and error fuse
designs are becoming more and more
independent
what I've found about this experience of
making new forms of life is that you
discover all the problems which the real
creator must have have creating this
world these animals will survive on
their own
just like you raise your children and
then there comes a day that you can kick
them out of the door and that they live
their own lives and hopefully at the end
of my life they all survive a lot better
than they do now then I could die
quietly knowing that I will live on for
the beaches on the beaches
you