Site responsive public art project
Material: Sugar cane bagasse, beet pulp, recycled paper on a wooden structure.
35 square meters
Through the shape of an imaginary architecture made of handmade paper, the installation reflects upon the hidden stories behind the landscape: narratives of daily gestures and labour. The layering of the paper refers to the stratification of time and memories in a humanized landscape that beholds visual traces of its past. The intense commitment to the making process, which became a performative act developed over four months, addresses the historical past of Tsung Yeh as a place production. The use of sugar cane bagasse and beet pulp in the paper mixture is a conceptual bridge to the raw materials employed in sugar production in Europe and Asia, as well as research towards innovative uses of paper. This metaphorical landscape, built by time and process, will be steadily transforming its features, being exposed to the weather, and becoming a visual reminder of our daily habits' impact on the environment. The viewers can experience the work from within and inhabit the space, moving between the ruins of a lost past that looks fragile but is present like a memory.