“Nature is an
incomparable guide, if you know how to follow her.” Carl Gustav Jung
Nature is one of the most essential conditions to
which our existence is bound. The essential part of it is the landscape; an
integral givenness that we walk on, father and cultivate. A specific site is
formed by man and in return it forms mans culture; hence no fathering is the
same, as well as the visual result of it, weather it is observable in the
fields, architecture or shaping natural habitats.
There are no places left that man has not touched, be
it forestry of fishing. However, how he has formed it, is what defines his
relation to landscape and the culture of fathering the earth.
As my work is strongly related to the materials found in a specific place, the interventions into the landscape would be constructed from the vegetation from the research forest. The visitors would help construct the interventions and with that learn about the plant life as well as gaining consciousness about the symbolic meaning of the interventions.
As my work is strongly related to the materials found in a specific place, the interventions into the landscape would be constructed from the vegetation from the research forest. The visitors would help construct the interventions and with that learn about the plant life as well as gaining consciousness about the symbolic meaning of the interventions.
“The country he
inhabits is at the same time the topography of his unconscious.” Carl Gustav
Jung
As
perception is integral for the (sub)conscious understanding of space and a
place it is unavoidable to ignore the presence of phenomenology. The sensuous
in our consciousness, as David Abram[i] puts
it, blends with the relation of the Jungian subliminal. An inner
perceptive influenced by the local culture and landscape connecting it to our own bodies.
[i]
David Abram is an American
philosopher, cultural ecologist, and performance artist, best
known for his work bridging the philosophical tradition of phenomenology with environmental and ecological issues.
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| Earth's circulatory system; 2 x 2 x 4.5 m; branches, bread, rock, dirt, 2012 |
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| Earth's circulatory system; 2 x 2 x 4.5 m; branches, bread, rock, dirt, 2012 |
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| Study for the model, 2012 |
This project is still in its development pahse as the skae of the original work is ment to be of about 7 meters in lenght. The material is to be made out of the material tipical for the region od construction. Due to the masive size of the instalation it requires construction statistics and firm aluminum sceleton. Those and other quories are still in a working and organisational proces.
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