"checkpoint to dutch arcadia" (1994) was a performance-art project in which pink commanded the royal netherlands army in a two-week campaign to close a portion of a -long, century-old dike built to withstand any future attack on amsterdam. with 200 truckloads of sand and 30,000 sandbags, the royal engineers and infantry (led by pink) filled the opening. at noon daily, pink addressed the men about the artwork and its purpose. an official road sign said "welcome to dutch arcadia" and "see you again in arcadia" in the languages of occupiers of the netherlands (now eu member states) and immigrants expelled from the netherlands during the 1990s.