How does your
Landscape shape your Mindscape?
Connecting Art, Environment, & Mythos
What is THIS?
Landscape Shapes Mindscape is the story of a large-scale sculpture being built in the woods out of materials gathered from forest tending and local mill waste streams. It is part of an experiment exploring ways that we can interweave stewardship and art to cultivate deeper meaning and connection with our local community, ecology, & our story of place.
How It All Started
We live in a small forest community above this beautiful green valley. This land we call home, like much of our county, was subjected to the heavy-handed logging industry of the 20th century. This very valley was the site of a local lumber mill. The subsequent hands-off approach after clear cutting has resulted in the story many of us are all too aware of - a century of overcrowded forest growth with thick layers of fuel load and fire ladders.
This project is as much a desire to make our home safer from wildfire through a relationship of tending the land, as it is to be creating a reflection of ourselves and our community with the hope of inspiring an emotional connection to something novel and deeply meaningful.
"To address our eco-grief and live in harmony with our surroundings, we need to re-skill, always remembering those who came before us and acting in ways that honor traditional wisdom of people and place."
Tomi Hazel Vaarde
Social Forestry: Tending the Land as People of Place
Support This Art
Your contribution can make a significant impact on our artistic journey.
Funds raised support the growth of this project by enabling us to create more projects like this and host community events and workshops around the themes of eco-art, wild-tending, and deepening of land-based culture.
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