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It comes down to shifting and playing with the forms. Until you get tension. And when that happens, you fix it or leave it', says sculptor Paul de Regt in an interview with the Haagsche Courant in 1977. He describes the way he designs his abstract sculptures, which are composed of geometric shapes. The shifting and playing is done in the studio with the help of scale models. Sometimes the ideas are executed to scale in zinc, sometimes in wood and hardboard. Although he himself uses the term 'playing', his works of art do not give the impression that he works purely intuitively. In the design phase, he consciously looks for an optimal aesthetic tension between form, line and surface.

That he ultimately achieves the desired effect with this search process is demonstrated by 'Dual Object' from 1980. The monumental work of art in the Huijgenspark near the Stationsweg consists of two geometric objects made of corten steel: a trapezium and a triangle, which - with some space in between - stand together. The base of the trapezium is smaller than the top. In the triangle, it is the other way round. That is visible. The tension between the two elements, which attract and simultaneously repel each other like two positively charged magnets, is tangible. This tension becomes stronger if we imagine that the two elements once formed one large object, a parallelogram. The artist - so it seems - made a cut in it, precisely so that according to geometrical principles a triangle appeared next to a trapezium. Two new forms born from one.