Video: Silvas Capitalis - forest guard from SIMPARCH
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Last year, the American team SIMPARCH carried out an unusual art project - they installed a wooden sculpture in the form of a huge head not in an exhibition hall or in a city square, but in the middle of a real forest! Although there is nothing surprising here, because this work personifies an ancient deity, and the title of the work - Silvas Capitalis - literally translates as "forest head".
Silvas Capitalis was established in the English Kielder forest near the Scottish border. The sculpture itself is an image of a human head, hollow inside. Entering through the "mouth", in the middle you can find a bench and a staircase to the second floor, from where you can admire the surrounding nature from the "eyes" windows. Initially, it was assumed that the sculpture will also have ears through which visitors can hear the sounds of the forest, but this idea had to be abandoned due to time constraints - in a word, they simply did not have time to make the ears. It took about 3 thousand wood blocks to create Silvas Capitalis, and all of them are glued together - the authors did without the use of nails.
The work could be considered as an ordinary gazebo, allowing lovers of forest walks to take a break and shelter from the rain. But the authors argue that this is not entirely true. The sculpture of SIMPARCH was inspired by Celtic mythology with the often-mentioned image of a living talking head - the guardian of Britain. So Silvas Capitalis is an unnamed guard who has closely watched the life of the forest and its inhabitants for centuries.
Remarkably, the Kielder forest is the largest man-made forest in Europe. On its territory there is also Kielder Water - the largest artificial lake in Great Britain. Is it any wonder that this area was chosen as the habitat of the man-made deity?
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