Books in the Forest: The Garden of Knowledge

It is a scenario a little bit like a fairy tale or cartoon in the eyes of the visitors in the garden of knowledge. It was established in the year 2010, during the international festival “les Jardins de Métis“ in Quebec.

Two years later, the books were placed in the middle of the woods. They were stacked to create the room, the walls and the seats, and "thinker", completely surrounding you in nature, a part of your new living space.

These walls, these mats and this chair made of paper are today, to enter the house for insects and small seeds, the development of fungi, mold, and all the effects, the…, to decompose. Also the colors of the cover are slowly fading culture back to nature.

It means that the process is not entirely spontaneous: meaning this kind of installation is a "very" open-air to stimulate the growth of mold and mildew with the evaporator and the applications of foam (that reminds us a little of " the art of the walls green, Anna Garforth) on these books, which today seems to be old and wise as the trees that surround it.

The idea we say is really poetic. LaTourelle, the architect of the landscape of berlin Thilo Folkerts, of the study, 100 landscape architecture and the canadian artist Rodney.

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