The Garden of Resuscitation
Date
2026
Dimensions
Variable
The forest in its ongoing entirety: the trees, plants, moss, fungi, animals, river currents, shorelines, the forest memories, and cycles of transformation that shape the site across time, histories, presents and futures, the moisture, the light, the earth, everything living and non-living that has existed, exists or will exist on the land in the future, the forest’s metabolisation processes, a sculptural boardwalk, benches cast from paper-pulp leaves, mounds of paper-factory waste mulch and the mushrooms they sustain, a six-metre tall resuscitated tree sculpture, a recipe for an evolving elixir, glass vessels containing elixir, cultivated plants and trees cared for specifically for the production of the elixir — including fireweed, raspberry, yarrow, pine, spruce, and birch, an annual gathering, a forager, a gardener.
Mother Spruce (sculpture): stainless steel, aluminium, bronze, patina, paint
Journey from the Dead (benches): aluminium, paint, paper factory waste mulch, reishi and turkey tail mushrooms, moss
To Become the Forest (glass vessels and elixir): elixir (fireweed, raspberry, yarrow, pine, spruce, birch), blown glass, zinc-passivated steel, ratchet strap
Commissioned by
Kistefos Museum, Norway
The Garden of Resuscitation
Date
2026
Dimensions
Variable
The forest in its ongoing entirety: the trees, plants, moss, fungi, animals, river currents, shorelines, the forest memories, and cycles of transformation that shape the site across time, histories, presents and futures, the moisture, the light, the earth, everything living and non-living that has existed, exists or will exist on the land in the future, the forest’s metabolisation processes, a sculptural boardwalk, benches cast from paper-pulp leaves, mounds of paper-factory waste mulch and the mushrooms they sustain, a six-metre tall resuscitated tree sculpture, a recipe for an evolving elixir, glass vessels containing elixir, cultivated plants and trees cared for specifically for the production of the elixir — including fireweed, raspberry, yarrow, pine, spruce, and birch, an annual gathering, a forager, a gardener.
Mother Spruce (sculpture): stainless steel, aluminium, bronze, patina, paint
Journey from the Dead (benches): aluminium, paint, paper factory waste mulch, reishi and turkey tail mushrooms, moss
To Become the Forest (glass vessels and elixir): elixir (fireweed, raspberry, yarrow, pine, spruce, birch), blown glass, zinc-passivated steel, ratchet strap
Commissioned by
Kistefos Museum, Norway
Annexe
Credits
Julia Andréone
ElixirKristin Helene Randulff Nielsen