It’s finally happening.
I have been meaning to start this blog already during our sudden move in the autumn, but as it turned out life just got a bit too hectic throughout this drastic event. Even our apartment is not fully ready and decorated yet, things are finally finished just enough to now longer fully occupy all my limited free.
This first post happens to be art-related, as it coincides with me starting a twelve weeks long bio art project. In the future though the focus of this blog will be mostly on crafts and food/cooking and of course — since were now living at the Alps — on discovering the nature and my new surroundings. But there will be art too. And plants. And hopefully at some point too also animals. And interior design. — Basically everything home-related.
But now on to the project: My home-made Wolpertingers (mythical creatures living here at the forests of the mountains — you can see them below) will move into tiny self-built biospheres for the next twelve weeks. I will document this process every Sunday through-out this period.
One of the containers will remain fully closed for the whole duration of this art project.
The second container will be nurtured continuously by me; I will be letting oxygen in and water it when needed.
The third container will be covered by a plastic cap with holes drilled through the top. I will leave that one to sit, fully exposed to the elements in my in-law’s yard.
Each of the containers are quite similar in their make and contain the following materials:
Decorative as well as regular sand
Terracotta balls
Soil
Coffee and espresso grinds
Moss
Stones
Grass
A piece of a stick
Either buried somewhere in the soil/coffee grinds or resting on top of them are furthermore to be found:
A piece of ginger
Flower seeds
Cress seeds
Dried paprika seeds
Dried peas
A stump of a lettuce
The Wolpertingers are made of clay, wool, toothpicks, and feathers and they sport plastic eyes.
Super exited to see what kind of new life will start growing in these!
