Project Dried Oasis made on Cap Verde 2015

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Thursday, May 19, 2011

ART PROJECT ALONG PILGRIM ROUTE

The class room

This years (2011) Landart project along a pilgrim route was a commissioned project for regional development by Västra Götaland in Falköpings municipality, Sweden. This artpiece is situated close to a small village, just beside the pilgrimtrack. Along all 7 pilgrim routs in this region, different mental concepts may be used as a mental focus along the walk. At this particular streach the concept ”slowness” is interduced as a leading word for the event of walking. So this work is a contemplation about time and the contemporary phenomena ”slowness”. Visualy the ojects beeing used in this piece, gives us a lead about time in comparancy between a human life (or activeties) and the growth of pine trees. This years project was also designed as a pedagogical program, where pupils from primary local school were involved in both design process and production of the artpiece. This titel is chosen in order to headlight this particular process, involving educational institutaions with artprojects. But also this title may give us a sence of curiosity for learning, along the path of life...

Size: 18x18x18 m (triangular shape).

Material:

Pinesite, 90 worn shooes, pine plants, plant soil, birchwood constructions.

Site: 2 km north of Gudhem, Sweden.

For more information; se text about project made 2010 ( tagg; landartprojects)