Weeding Wales

We have been calling for volunteers to clear and weed a massive earth work in the shape of the map of Wales which Welsh artist Paul Davies created with the help of students, family and friends in 1987 as part of the Year of Environment by the then European Commission. 

But is this form of gardening for visibility I have been enabling really the appropriate form of care for the earth work? Paul Davies did describe the earth work as “a living sculpture”, as semi-permanent. 

Semi-permanence - what does that indicate? A becoming invisible, a disappearing? Or a becoming visible again, an emerging? 

Together with the art collective Utopias Bach, we have been looking deeper into scoring encounters and relationships with the more-than-human (Tree Sense School). Drawing on our learning so far, we would like to invite everyone to a scored encounter with the site of the earth work at Llyn Alaw.
Depending on how your encounter ‘descores’, you might start scoring invitations for encounters, too. Or you might engage in weeding as a form of care for semi-permanence. Or you might explore resonating with mythological traces of the site as a new form of gardening for healing.

Please get in touch for further information.
This project is part of the UB Weeds School.