Walking in circles
When walking in the woods, debris is present all over the forest floor, leaves, cut and broken branches big and small. Since a few decades these are left in our forests to left to be broken down, to decompose and become part of the forest floor again. Sometimes I intervene a bit and shift some of the branches, twigs, leaves and moss, and create a circle and leave it to decompose further. The circle is like an ouroboros, symbolizing the eternal cyclic renewal, of life, death, and rebirth. Whenever I am around, I take a walk in the woods to make new landart or follow the structures I shaped before, Some circles live short, others last for 4 to 5 years already. Over time I come back and see the changes during the seasons, to follow their decay. The first circle was made in Nieuw Groevendaal (Hexagon Ferns and Pieces) July 16, 2019. Meanwhile I have installed 20 circles and more spread across the Netherlands, and Sweden. Some of them had a short life span and were de-circled by visitors, others have been given the time to break down gradually. Some examples are shown here, see INSTA for a more complete story. I made a small booklet (leporello), showing their fate over time.
Sweden - Henneviken Feb. 2023
Three years later, Feb. 2023, the circles and radiant still were untouched, moss covered the trunks and the wood became soft, nature works.
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The Netherlands - Wageningen 2020-2023
Sweden - Henneviken Feb. 2020, Summer 2021
Trunks of birch trees in a spruce forest were cut by the owner, I shifted and rearranged some of them into a circle, a radiant, and left them to become part of the soil floor again.
