Dale i Sunnfjord, Norway
The landscape of the Fjords on the west coast of Norway stands out as scenery that presents a constant dialogue between mountains, ocean, rivers, waterfalls and lakes. A landscape with an uneven geography, acquiesced by valleys and archipelagos, where acres of pine forest shade the ground covered with moss, vanishing among the mist.
An inner connection to theFjords landscape- by collecting up seed-material from the forest ground, mainly pine cones, a material that acquires a symbolic connotation to the landscape, and carefully stacking them to make an enclosure that wraps the viewer in the textures of the forest while directing the view upward, through the canopy to open sky.
The piece is reflective of the process of building, in which the architects walked through the mossy, mist-held pine groves selecting thousands of cones, ‘the seeds of the forest’ to make a ‘hand-made natural skin.’
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Grant NKD. Nordic Artists’ Centre Dalsåsen. Norwegian Ministry Of Culture
NKD: Arild H. Eriksen (Director) + Jasmina Bosnjak (Coordinator)
Norwegian Ministry of Culture
