Human | Nature
Human | Wood
Polyphony
The project Human|Wood Polyphony attempts to create a new perspective to understand the woods through a polyphony of the human and woodland rhythms. This establishes a familiar connection for the human in the woodland and extends our correlation between objects/materials and the processes they embed.
This is done by first collecting elements from a chosen site. The material itself embed processes. Instead of a photograph or print, collecting physical materials on site allow the possibility to re-construct a 3-dimentional experience of the forest. These elements are displayed, and the processes behind them are simulated.
2021 | MLA Landscape Architecture
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The elements are then mapped to different rhythms in the forest and compared to rhythms of my everyday life based on Rhythmanalysis proposed by Lefebvre. The rhythms are the frequency and intensity of processes behind the exchange of materials or substances.
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For an example polyphony, a pair of devices is built to reveal, synchronise, and amalgamate the human Respiration and the plant Transpiration. The devices are an extension of the human and the plant processes, collecting, storing, and transporting water outside the bodies, which completes a cycle of water transport.
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These cycles are performed together to compare the timescales, and also joined for the human and plant to embody each other’s rhythm. The rhythm, processes, and real experiment are synthesised in the final film.
This new method of understanding aims to criticize the increasingly distanced and objective approach towards studying the natural world, separating human and nature. It proposes an alternative for us to bring our familiar life into the now uncanny experience of the forest. For the humans and woods to better understand each other and re-establish the connection between us.
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