outer landscape experiences
How easily do we connect with the environment? How aware and active are we during a lanscape experience? Which of our senses are we using to inhabit/live an experience? To which places am I particularly attracted to? How much does a place evokes? Which feelings are related to the experience? Which memories are coming up? Is the place inviting to stop or to interact with it?
An outer landscape experience invites us to re-alive architecture and the city as a laboratory of regenerative experiences, as a playground of micro-landscapes as possibilities and active interventions for exploration, involvement, and participation. With the intention of regenerating our perspective from and the individual to the collective landscape.
On Höxter Hill, its forests hide a small area where groups of children create their own stories, sculptures and shelters in nature. While playing they also constantly modify their landscape and eventually return to create another new story.
In June 2022, the installation ''The Spirit of the Forest'' was inspired by this movement. It was one of the first experiments of Paisaje Sentido, which integrated curiosity, imagination, wonder, discovery, involvement and interaction with place, the body & nature materials (just like children intuitively).
The result was a temporal playspace around an ancient three created with logs and wooden branches of different sizes fitted together, creating both a fabric and a barrier. Over time this playscape mutated to create new stories and secret places in the forest.
Landart Installation, Traditional Dream Factory. Abela, Portugal
This Installation was developed for TDF during the Abela Art Fair in July 2022. It was conceived to reactivate a sacred place called ‘’The Sanctuary’’. The intention was to re-alive and to make visible conversations between the human and non-human world. Up into the hill, three ancient trees were already part of the place, where a circle of white painted stones consolidate a central place. As part of the circle, eight stakes made of wood were placed into the rocky soil.
From there, the forces of the earth rise up to connect with the trees and its branches. which are represented with white yarn and with weed eater String Line. Both of them, are weaving dialogs between the inner and the outer landscapes, and also strengthening the magical effect of this connection of making visible the invisible. A hanging grid is a projection of the circle of stones and is hidden up into the branches holding some night lights. Finally, there is a central circle of neon painted stones which consolidates the meeting ceremony point where fire takes place, the center: the ritual.