Welcome to my blog, where I will regularly post about land art and floral design. My passion to create in nature started a few years ago with a book by Andy Goldsworthy. How he manipulates natural materials to build vegetative objects and installations is very inspiring to me! After reading his book, I looked for similar artists and discovered the work of Nils Udo, Richard Long, Richard Shilling, Roy Staab and many others. As a florist I strongly believe in the ‘Less is more’ principle: getting to the ultimate creation with as few materials as possible, keeping your work pure! This philosophy is very much in line with land art, where you create with what you find in a certain plan. Land art goes back to basics, because the location determines several limitations. The seasons also have a considerable impact, as does the lack of technical tools to come to a creation. This is what makes land art so fascinating!
My story began in the Sahara in Lommel, a unique location in Belgium. It’s a large coniferous forest with in its center a sandy plain with a beautiful lake, created by sand extraction. An amazing location for Land Art! On my way through the forest I was surprised by the work of Will beckers, the willowman. He makes huge sculptures out of willow branches and wants to interact between people and nature. Definitely a name you should look up when it comes to land art! At the entrance of the forest I found beautiful polygonium sticks and pods of the gleditsia with which I wanted to make a construction in the lake. Immediately it became clear that nature has the upper hand and constructing was not that easy! On top of that, some horsemen were walking their horses through the lake a few meters from the spot where I was working. Any vibration could cause my construction to collapse, which was exactly what happened! After this anti-climax I regained courage and started building a new construction and I must say I was very happy with the result. This was the start of my land art adventure!
