THE TERRITORY OF LIVING, Aktuelle Architektur Der Kultur (AADK), Blanca, Murcia, Spain, September 2016
TOL investigated the polarizing forces between the masculine and feminine, body and mind, and the immaterial (energetic) and material (physical) world. It questioned the possibilities for balance between local and global commerce. The project acknowledged that many of us would like to be more connected to nature and the sites we live within but we live busy lives facilitated by convenience and consumption. So, we were interested in creating a space that transforms both how we relate to our bodies and the surrounding physical world. During the residency, energetic and somatic rituals brought us into deeper states of presence and consciousness to re-frame the ways we participate in the physical world. The material objects of the installation came from found objects that were available to us on the landscape of the site and included the process of growing, exhibiting and sharing wheat grass. By working with the material world in ritual, the items in our installation became symbols of the process of investigating our hidden inner emotional landscape and the consciousness out of which we relate to the material world. The final exhibition sought to inspire the viewer to participate in their own transformation.