Project: Clear Cut
Client: Own Project
Type: Land Art Installation
Stage: 2011
Team: Joakim Kaminsky, Maria Poll
We would like to thank "Systemtext" for sponsoring us with material.

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

In the summer of 2011 Joakim Kaminsky and Maria Poll went into the deep forests of Medelpad in northern Sweden. With them they brought 15 meters of mirror coated fabric aiming to create an installation that would interpret the life cycle of this pine forest.

However eternal it may seem this is not a natural forest. Like 90% of the forests in Sweden it is used for forestry consequently being continuously grown and chopped down in a 60 years life cycle.

Joakim and Maria wanted to connect these trees to time. They wanted the installation to visualize a memory of earlier generations of pine trees that had stood here and forecast the clear cut that will soon replace them. Perhaps the mirrors could absorb the light, colors and smells of this place and save them for the future?

Joakim and Maria stayed in the forest during a day and a night observing how the installation changed in dialogue with its surroundings; during midday, as the sun set, as a mist came in, during the dark night and as the sun rose. Then they left, leaving no trace.


More info on Swedish forestry:

http://www.naturskyddsforeningen.se/natur-och-miljo/skog/

http://protecttheforest.se/sv/om-svensk-skog