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A monumental, bright white V-shape put Fredy E. Wubben on the Houtrust Bridge in the late 1980s. With a signal in red and yellow at the top. As is the case with much abstract art, it doesn't represent anything in particular. But it doesn't have to. In an interview in the Leidsch Dagblad of September 9, 1982, the artist says: "With a ring or a piece of music you don't ask what it represents, do you? It is a composition. [...] You can look at an image and you can like it or not."

Although there is still figuration in her early work, Wubben starts making totally abstract work in the early 1970s. For almost ten years she explored the expressive possibilities of metal, rope, rubber and leather. Essential is the tension and balance between the different components and materials. In the late eighties she discovers glass as a material. By subsequently combining that with different types of metal, she develops a very personal signature.

Wubben is a sculptor who depicts her wonderment of existence and the world around her in sculptures of glass, wood, bronze and steel. Sometimes these are monumental abstract sculptures, other times more recognizable representations in living room format. However diverse, the themes of fertility and transience run like a thread through all her work. Her Maxima-glass is well known for winning a competition in 2006. In that year, Royal Leerdam Crystal and the Friends of Modern Glass held a competition for a drinking glass for the princess.

The sculpture on the Houtrust Bridge is very similar to the abstract sculpture she made in 1987 for De Muzenhof theater in Leiderdorp. Although this Leiderdorp sculpture was titled "Ode to Music" when it was reinstated in 2021, like the sculpture on the Houtrust Bridge, it originally had no title.